The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-04-04
POULTRY MATCHING.
Mr.. Herbert Melodies Meets
With Success.
INCUBATORS HATCH OUT CHICKS
With Astonishing Regularity, and by
the Hundreds, Making it
Profitable Business.

Mr.. Herbert W. Melodies, of this place
is about the busiest man in Marietta Fol-
months he has been runLing seven incu.
bators, holding $500 eggs, Matching abou,
80 per cent of them. Out of 224 eggs in
one incubator last week he patched 200
He has diffrent apartments in his chicken
house for various size chickens and fpds
ready sale for them at rs cents each, some.
times more.
He is the inventor of an incubator which
is far superior to any thing In that line
From the chicken hatchery, he has an
electric wire running to his, bed room,
which alarms him at night if the tempera>
ture is too low or too high If the burns
ing lamp is about TO create a confagratiou,
cotton sting is so arranged that it ig~
mites, this snaps it in twain and puts the
alarm bell to ringing in his room and he
goes out and extinguishes the incipient
blaze. This contrivance has saved him
three times lately from his incubators
catching fire.
The incubators are the things to use il
yon are going into poultry raising for a
profitable business. They place the young
chickens on the market when the old hens
won't set in December, January or Febru.
airy. During the first of March eggs are
so cheap but few farmers are willing to
lug their eggs to town TO take Gents per
dozen for them, when the use Of incuhators
could convert the eggs into Saleable chick
ems at Is cents piece, often times as
| high as 80 cents.
The expense drumming 20 hen capac,
ity incubator is only 30 cents and there i;
no vermin to interfere.
The breeders for the. chicks after hatch.
| Ne iSanother IMPORTANT Item! Nothins
stunts chicken more than being chilled
The hen trails her young around through
dew, rain and cold, which sckens and
weakens many and they die. With
brooders the chicks are not exposed and
grow from the start
City people and farmers can run iuou,
bators with success, but you want a good
| incubator, for there are many humbugs on
the market, as in other things. Failure
by the use OF bad incubator discoUrages
many. Start right and study to know and
give the proper care and food and success
| is certain.
Beginners should observe these points
You should have double Regulator
You need your nights rest and can't afford
to sit up all night watching the lamp. With
a double regulator only is this avoided.
The incubator should be heated with hot
water and not hot air.
The ventilatipg holes must be below
level fthe eggs to carry, off the carbonic
gas thrown from the eggs.
You mnst have moisture guage az,
tached. 10000 chicks are killed by moist
ure where is saved by the use of it.
1t is very important that it should have
the eggs fixed SO as to turn every egg al
one motion and at the same time remov.
| ing all eggs out of center OF tray and eggs
outside to center You see the center o
tray is the hottest and airy device to sim.
| ply turn the eggs over is a chicken killer.
For the eggs on outside do not get enough
heat to hatch them properly
| Beware Of incubators and hrooders com
bined in one-that is with partments
on top of incubator for chicks after through
! Matching
incubators regulated from water expau
sion, mercury or any other device is
humbug, all except one. The regulate
must be composed OF rubber bar, plac
ed in tie egg chamber and exactly on
level with the eggs so that it is not effect
ed except when the AR RICH; at the egg is
This is very important, for an incubato
without No. regulator is as useless a
a machine without needle and as expel
sive as paying 500 for bushel OF corn
The lime of incubation is Il days Be
ginning to hatch on night OF 10TH day an,
finishing up at the lend Of the 2ls: To-
great heat will cause it to hatch too early
ard too low temperature retards the hatch
Either Of the above produces weak chicks
Chicks need nothing for 3G hours ate
Matching rs the yolk on the 18th day pass
es into the chicks-and acts as food. II i
injurious to ired:until after 3G hours TIL
most important Of all after the chicks hay
hatched Is warmth. If handled careiull,
and he'd no backsets the larger breeds be
come marketable az eight weeks old o
course much depends on tae breed,
There is no way visible 70 tell a. to th
fertility Of eggs uLtl after abou, 3 days q
incubation BY holding up eggs to ia