PROFITABLE EGG FARMING. 
Breeding-Laying Houses, Harris Egg Farm, Mansfield, Mass, 
The inside porous top which admits warmed air 
into the egg chamber at all times, requiring no 
moisture, is no doubt the correct principle. 
The system of turning the eggs is the simplest 
and best. The regulator is perfection. 
“ I have tried, side by side, the Cyphers with 
several different makes of incubators, with eggs 
from the same flock and other conditions being 
the same. The Cyphers always hatches the 
greater percentage with less variation in tem¬ 
perature, while other makes of incubators would 
addle a good many eggs. 
“A metal inside top is, according to my ex¬ 
perience, a bad defect. The side by side test 
with other machines has cost me about $400.00. 
I have disposed of all other makes and will 
replace with Cyphers’ incubators. I like the 
Cyphers brooders too. 
“ I have always been highly successful in the 
show room. Mv Boston record for 1903 is the 
best of any one breeder of Rhode Island Reds. 
I cannot see any difference between a hen- 
hatched and a Cyphers hatched chicken in the 
show room, or out. As to feeding chickens, 
there seems to be no rule. The idea is to feed 
a balanced ration. I, having so much faith in 
the Cyphers people, thought I would give their 
Chick Food and Beef Scrap a test, and ordered 
several hundred bags. The Chick Food is an 
honest food and their scraps the best I ever 
saw. I find this method the easiest and quick¬ 
est way of feeding, with the best of results. 
“ I have always been suspicious of these so- 
called balanced-ration foods, as you cannot tell 
what the mixture is, while in the Cyphers Chick 
Food you can see the different grains, they being 
sweet and wholesome. 
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