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THE POULTRY BOOK. 
Our readers may form an accurate idea of its general character and structure from 
the engraving, representing a 200 egg machine, with four drawers, each capable of 
containing fifty hens’ or seventy pheasants’ eggs. In the woodcut one of the drawers 
is shown partly pulled out, and under the nearer drawer the ingenious but simple 
lifts by which it is raised to the required height are shown. In front are the two 
artificial mothers, one of which is raised up to show the depending locks of wool. 
These are both covered with flannel. In front is the hatching tray, and the feeding 
cage is shown at the back. The stool by which the gas or lamp is raised to the 
required height is seen through the open door ; the chimney to carry off the pro- 
ducts of combustion from the lamp, and the thermometer by which the temperature 
is regulated, require no further description. 
We have recently seen one of these machines in active operation, and examined 
and handled many of the chickens hatched by it, some of which had been reared by 
the machine itself, and others under hens. The chickens were of all ages, and were 
strong, healthy, and vigorous. The same may be said of the ducks, guinea-fowls, 
and pheasants which had been hatched in the machine. We did not see one sickly 
or diseased chicken of any age in the large poultry yard attached to the establish- 
ment, and can therefore recommend the apparatus as well adapted for hatching, 
where numbers of fowls or pheasants are required. 
