Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-29
IN THE THOUSANDS.
MATCHED ARTi-
haee,.,LY IN EGYPT.
- In Process OF In
-, Once-An Old
-. and IA Boy the
so,e Attendants.

.,o season of the year that
fDs ;ndnstry is a subject OF
ESea lost. the proverb of time is
Y esoeeially applicable TO the fes-
Same Information which an
u sends from Egypt on ar
n.ebiocs of chickens may De II
The Egyptians of thousands
.eo seem to have fully realized
y the hen. They saw even IN
,siligbt of those early days the
q one hen devoting three
,ime and six weeks of scratch
|. nroduction of twelve chickens.
~ Egytians mind applied itself
.sst Of artificial incubation, and
sahated artificially a system by
~ man with a few simple ac-
s.meuts could have 10000 eggs
(sirs process at one time. An in
rbieh has 10000 eggs undergo
H. time is regarded by the Brook
i,pu as quite an institution, aud
[,ebt of one incubator and one
4 man. with the aid of a 1G-year-
and a small quantity OF fuel,
ont $4,000 chickens in three
! fine has led Consul General
I'M Of Carlo, 10 give the people of
Ited States some hints on chicken
lprubatory," as Consul Cardwell
r. Is a huge affair built of sun
bricks, mortar and earth. The
|sre sixteen feet high and Two
! thickness, but there are double
|snund the outside and the space
l. i filed with earth SO as to
J; the escape of the heat and keep
n temperature within. The floor
|pred with mortar to prevent the
~ Of moisture. Within the struc-
\ divided into compartments which
\ 4 bakers oven Ii shape. These
\ places where the eggs are depos-
hi Matching, and the care with
they are constructed TO prevent
in atmosphere from without is
by the fact that there is at least
thickness of wall and earth be-
them and the climate outside.
i heated several days before the
ne placed inside, and after the
Is all expelled the attendant de-
rs the proper temperature without
raameter. but merely by his own
In. aud during the weeks in which
q are ia process of incubation the
ttendants live day and night with
keeping sufficient fire, opening or
draughts and air ducts, never al
the heat TO fall below 9S or rise
100 degrees, and all without the
4 thermometer, until ut the end
twenty-one days the thousands of
ls begin to make their appearance.
incubation" says Consul
Ell, is by no means a strictly
. Industry in Egypt. The art of
ig eggs by other than natural pro-
Ias known and practiced by an
and the Egyptian incu-
Of today Is but a reproduction of
: Of thousands of years ago. In all
Years the Egyptian breed of a
. has not changed and the man
production has remained immu-
Not long ago | secured Il metal
q a chicken deposited in a tomb
wv years ago, and it is the per-
Pc Of the Egyptian fowl of to-day.
zen the stamp was struck artificial
non was a thing of actual exist
J Egypt. The methods of hatch
by artificial means and a know
y constructing appliances for the
ave descended through ages from
70 son and the wonderful success
" ms industry throws into insig-
The modern scientific machine
nlroduced into the United States
ewhere. The marvellous success
MEAL fowl production in Egypt
te fact that inventive genius,
america, might be directed into
vcsssful and far less expensive
Of industry by drawing inspira-
~ These patient, never-tiring peo-
ue Nlle valley. In 1880 the fowl
7 q TIE United States amounted
s1o,Uo0,VO0: and il to so vast an
could be applied the economies
lsYpuan production, profits would
These economies are excr-
everything. Not only are eggs
uuga the process of incubation
iespiy than anywhere else in the
y. chicks are reared at an ex-
:. comprehension, while desease