New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-02
THE FARM and HOME,
An Hours Talk with Industrious Farm
ers and Housewives.
: Description Of Cheap and Easily Made Incu-
brtors- Some Good Advice About Special
Farming Dairy Notes : Horticultural
Hints--Hints for Busy Housekeepers.
1ncubators and Breeders.

There are several plans for incubat-
~ors, requiring more or less attention
according to their arrangement. A
simple and cheap one consists of a
box or portable closet, the door fitted
with large pane of glass. Cleats
nailed to the sides of the closet. sup
port the sliding shelf, and strips of
wood fastened to the shelf on the four
sides, prevent the eggs from falling
out when it is pulled forward daily in
order to turn the eggs, and occasion
ally to moisten them. The closet
should be raised to a convenient
height and firmly fastened, so that
the drawing out of the shelf will cause
but slight motion to the eggs.
Several modes Of supplying heat to
incubators have been invented, one
consisting of a coal oil lamp placed at
one end OF the closet on the outside,
having a vessel of water over it. A
piece OF lead pipe soldered at both
ends into separate parts of this vessel,
is made to pass around the inside OF
the closet. The lighted lamp causes
the water to boil, the steam passing
through the pipe, warns the eggs,
and returns to the outside vessel.
A thermometer hung inside the
closet indicates temperature, which is
regulated by the flame of the lamp.
The water in the vessel must not be
allowed to get too low and the water
added should be hot
Another plan for heating incuba
ors, is to have the top consist of a
tin vessel; having an orifce about
three inches in diameter in one end of
It, Into this orifice a tin pipe six inches
long is tightly soldered, at an angle
of forty five degrees. The vessel
should of course be covered and the
pipe closed at the lower end, with a
piece of the same metal. Vessel and
pipe being filed with hot water, a
lighted lamp placed under the closed
end OF the pipe, soon causes the water
to rise through it, producing a circula-
ton, thereby increasing the Temporal
ture OF the vessel, which gives suffi-;
Client heat to the Incubator, and the
eggs placed upon the shelf within it,
BROoDERs-Several years ago, be-
fore artificial breeders were thought
of L was, while living in the west,
compelled to protect a Matching of
motherless chicks, and contrivedh a
brooder from large ypasteboard box
about two and "a half feet LONG, two
tfeet,wide and sufficiently deep to pre-
vent the young chicks from gettin g
out. cut the cover crosswise one
half the length of the box, one end of
which l lowered to the depth of three
inches, aud sloped the sides to CORE
sspond to the size of cover. Onto the
inner side of the cover I fastened a
piece of sheepskin, previously sewing
ieItewlocks of the wool to hang down,
especially along the front edge When
finished, Il stitched the cover fast to
the lowerrend of the box and the slop-
ing sides.
The chicks wereSfed in the box, the
bottom of whichrMas partially covered
with sand: They thrived we'll, and
upon Initiating the warning note Of the
hen, the cunning little things would
run under the cover as naturally as
when called by the; mother They
were soon taught to pick up the grains
OF softened'corn meal, by tapping with
the finger nail upon1the bottom of the
box. VS.. -. -. ..