The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-07-08
EGGS BY THE THOUSANDS,
HOW THEY ARE MATCHED ARrl-
FICIALLY IN EGYPT. Y
Ninety Thousand I'm Process OF In
cubation Mt Once-An Old
Man and a Boy the
Sole Attendants.

'DefHX LnC season OF the year CnAC
the chicken industry ISIS subject of
special interest, the proverb Of time is
money" is especially applicable to the fes-
tive hen. Some information which an
able counsel sends from Egypt ON ar
tificial ~hatchings. of chickens may be in
teresting. The Egyptians Of thousands
Of years aga seem to have fully realized
the value of the hen. They saw even in
the dim twilight of those early days the
~absnrdity of one hen devoting three
weeks OF time and six weeks of scratch
Ing to the production Of twelve chickens.
Hence, the Egyptians mind applied itself
to the task of artificial incubation, and
soon i%ncubated artiicially a system by
which one man with a few simple ac-
COMPARTMENTS could have $4,000 eggs
In Matching process at one time. An in
cubatcr which has $4,000 eggs undergo
ug at one time is regarded by the Brook
iyn Citizen as quite an institution, aud
the thought of one incubator and one
decrepit man, with the aid of a 16-year-
old boy and a small quantity OF fuel,
turning u 3 $1,000 chickens in three
months time has led Consul General
Cardwell, of Carlo, to give the people of
b United States some hints OH chicken
producing. .... i
The '.incubat0ry," as Consul Cardwell
terH.s It, Is a huge affair built of sun
dried bricks, mortar and earth. The
walls are sixteen feet high and two
feet in thickness, but there are double
walls around the outside and the space
between Is filled with earth SO Us to
prevent the escape of the heat and keep
m even temperature within. The floor
ts covered with mortar to prevent the
entrance Of moisture. Within the struc-
y is divided into compartments which
are like Q bakers oven IN shape. These
are the places where the eggs are depos-
tied for Matching, and the care with
which they are constructed to prevent
changes in atmosphere from without Is
shown by the fact that there is at least
ten feet thickness of wall n earth be.
tween them and the climate outside.
This is heated several days before the
6 are placed inside, and after the
termines the proper temperature without
. Thermometer, but merely by his own
sensation, and during the weeks in which
b eggs are in process of incubation the
two attendants live day and D'~ht with
them, keeping sufficient fire, O. ening OF
lowing the heat to fall below 90 OF rise
above 100 degrees, and all without the
ald uoL#9 unul at tne ena
q Ine IWenIy-one 0ays Sas tnousanas %
oalckens Iegan % make tnear appeaIancs;
sly IoHsH.
GaIuWeA, IS no Mea0s ssI IL
m00ern n0ustTy 10 Egypt. Inc " ~
nAIcnin& e&ss w 0tnsT IlAl asuia psO'
cess vas gov M gSd $3.50 ~ -
Clens .lG IS ISssp S,sa4;nn ~
uaIosy Y Sosuay - = u III
ne Ohc ~ snonsanHs ~ $500 asy af !
- ScAlS - IsypslI a. 49,
ca.c.Sn. .nal,,st;cx haa .a,narod AZ ;n,rn,.
49, ~ 49, go Z .oc,,raJ ! mataI
1.mn - : ch;cLen aanas;fed IN : tnnah
&c., y 01nn vaors aco1 send Is a. +hA nar.
fect iva ~ tho Envnf;an fowl ~ to-dav
and H,han fha sta1nn WAS strnck artificial
incnhaf;nn was 3 hing If actnaI arisf-
nnca in Eevnf. The methods of hatch
snc arrs hy art;6 c;aI raoonS and 3 nav
i snS ose "a ~ nst,,,ct;ns ls sanl;s n anu = fa nnt the
ssnoe .h.re aascandaS thrnnch avas frnm
father "a ar, and fla Wnnderfnf success
aftendinr 4his indusfrv fhrnvvs into ins;r-
nif;cance the modarn sciont;ic marhino
lately infrodneeI intn fha Tinted States
and eisewhene, The marvelnns snccess
al artiiciai fowl nrodmction il :
proves tie fact that i~nyentive genius.
even In America. MIGHT IL directed into
more succassfd and Tar less expensive
ton from these patient, never.tiring peo-
isas:ssy &c 4 re Sso United iss Stss :: .% : J !