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How to Succeed With the 
Incubator 
ee supreme advantage of an incubator 
is that it is ready for use at any time. 
Properly handled, it will hatch as strong and 
vigorous chicks as will the hen, and they can 
be hatched much cheaper, too. An incuba- 
tor that will hold as many eggs as can be 
covered by ten to thirty hens, can be given all 
the necessary attention in from ten to fifteen 
minutes a day, and a hatch may be run off 
with approximately five gallons of oil. That 
n mber of hens would require several times 
as much care and attention, and their feed 
would cost much more than the oil. 
February is not too early to start a hatch 
of the larger breeds, and April or May will do 
very well for the Leghorns and similar breeds. 
Broilers will be high-priced when these early- 
hatched chicks are the proper size, and fresh 
eggs will also be high in price and in great 
demand when the pullets, if properly fed and 
handled, are ready to lay. Do not wait until 
the chicks begin to hatch before looking for 
a brooder, but get your brooder ready at the 
same time. 
There are both “ hot air” and “ hot water ”’ 
machines, and excellent results have been 
secured from both, but personally I prefer 
the hot air machine because it has seemed to 
be more easily handled. The hot water 
machines will hold the heat longer, however, 
if the source of heat dies out. 
WHERE TO PUT THE APPARATUS 
The best place to operate is in an incuba- 
tor cellar, which, if properly constructed, 
is partially underground, with non-conduct- 
ing walls, an air space between roof and 
ceiling, darkened windows and a _ venti- 
lating system for keeping the air pure. This, 
however, is usually beyond the means of the 
man with one or two incubators, whose near- 
est approach to this is an airy house cellar. 
The air must be pure to secure results, and 
the temperature kept as even as possible. To 
say that an incubator is a dangerous thing to 
have around is an untruth—there is really 
no more danger from a properly operated 
incubator than there is from an ordinary 
kerosene lamp, and not half so much as 
from some oil stoves. 
An old shoe-box with a hole in the side makes 
a convenient egg tester. Hold the egg close to the 
box and look through to the light 
