HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1915 
197 
Hatching With a Wooden Hen 
(Continued from page 175) 
convenient tester will be needed. A good 
kind consists of a device similar to a metal 
lamp chimney, with a light tube at one 
side. It may be used on an ordinary lamp, 
and leaves both hands free. A plan used 
by some poultrymen who have incubator 
cellars allows the eggs to be tested in day¬ 
light and without the use of a lamp. A 
board shutter having an opening in the 
center a trifle smaller than an egg is fitted 
into the window so tightly that all light is 
excluded except that which comes through 
the opening, and against which the eggs 
are held to be examined. If there be a 
strong light outside, as when the sun is 
shining brightly, the testing may be clone 
very easily and quickly. 
While making the test for fertility it is 
also advisable to examine the air cell at 
the end of the egg in order to learn 
whether evaporation is normal or too 
rapid. One of the illustrations indicates 
the proper size of the air chamber at the 
end of a week and two weeks. When the 
contents of the egg seems to be drying 
faster than it should the air chamber will 
be larger and the operator will know that 
more moisture is needed. The moisture 
question is one which has been the cause 
of much discussion, but too much moisture 
seems, on the whole, to be better than too 
little. In many machines it is provided 
by means of wet sand trays. With other 
machines pails of water may be placed 
under the lamp, the floors wet down or 
the eggs sprinkled with water at a tem¬ 
perature of 103. Sprinkling is often ad¬ 
vantageous when duck eggs are hatching. 
With the chicks finally out of the in¬ 
cubator, it is easy to understand that the 
machine will need a thorough cleaning and 
disinfecting before it is used again. The 
lamp burner should be boiled and a new 
wick inserted, after which the machine 
may be started on a new hatch. 
From all that has been written one 
might suppose that the operation of a 
hatching machine is a complicated matter, 
but in point of fact it is not. Certain things 
are to be done in the right way and at the 
right time, but a first-class machine will re¬ 
quire little attention except night and 
morning. Follow the maker’s directions 
carefully, for he has doubtless spent many 
hours trying to anticipate every possible 
contingency. He wants to make it as easv 
as possible for his customers to get satis¬ 
factory hatches. As to the rest, the ama¬ 
teur who has the highest decree of success 
is the one who looks carefully after everv 
detail, but otherwise leaves the machine 
alone. Tinkering, especially with the 
thermostat regulator, is foolish. After the 
first adjustment, the temperature may 
usually be regulated by increasing or low¬ 
ering the lamp flame. And, finally, it 
must be remembered that nobodv can 
batch good chickens in any sort of incu¬ 
bator unless the eggs were laid by hens 
possessing strong vitality. 
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