The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-05-07
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
nov Successful Farmers Operate This
Departments Of the FaFm-A Few
Hints ss 20 the Care % live stock
ana Poultry.


Whether a farmer shall use a hen
OF an incubator for Matching his chicks
will depend largely on the volume Of
bis operations. II he keeps only .
c0zen OF 20 hens Il certainly will not
pay him to depend on an incubator.
but II be expects TO raise several hun
dreds hens year. a. We belleye every
farmer should. II will BE- advisable for
him 20 secure an incubator as soon rs
be can. Incubators can now be pur-
chased very eheaply. and the invest
meat will be a permanent one. for u
Is probably true that 30 far a. one
mans life Is concerned incubaiors new
er wea. out. An incubator will pay for
itself many times In the course Of ten
years. Not only so. but Il win save
much labor. And. while buying. II Is
better TO get a large machine. A big
noek Of chicks Ia not 70 hard 70 look
out for as a number Of smaller foeks.
a. one can readily imagine who has had
much TO do with sitting hens.
The comparison OF the hen and the
incubator shows that much Of the pre-
pondcrance Of testimony IL on the side
Of the incubator. Who that mas had 20
look after a dozen sitting hens has not
wished tat all Of the hens could be
combined into one biz hen and that all
Of the chicks could be put into one
flock? This Is one Of the mos; valuable
things about the Incubator. One can
raise from one 10 two hundred chicks
at a time and have the work all In a
bunch. Another advantage Is that the
lice can be finally exterminated. In
fact II a man begins right and takes
care OF bis poultry a. be should there
Is no reason In the world for ever hay-
Ing a louise among the poultry. u all o.
the chicks are raised In incubaiors
This alone Is a consideration Of vas'
| moment. when We use hens for SIT
ting It Is generally impossible to ex'
j terminate the lice Al least. even Il
they can be exterminated By extraordi'
nary methods. they seldom are. scm'
time ago the Farmers Review sent oul
inquiries 70 is readers as TO the Gauss
Of losses In the poultry yard. The re-
plies showed that more chicks were
lost from lice than from all othel
causes combined. Thus the incubator
removes at one stroke the creates
cause for mortality among chicks.
Probably the second greatest iosl
among newly born chicks Is being trod
den 20 death by the old hen. We some
times hear people say tina, no one car
care for a chick as an old hen. but tn
fact remains that the hen Is 80 stupii
that she will stand on a chick I'll th'
life Is gone even though the little on
keeps up a constant peeplng % long a
Il can. Instinct does not take the plac
Of intellect The writer has iscquenti.
lost the larger part Of brood throus.
the stupidity Of the old hen This /
especially true Of heavy hens 10
mothers. With some Of the heav
birds Il Is no unusual thing 10 90 gu
TO their nest every morning ard I'm
another dead chick" So We bellev
that II will pay the farmer 10 substl
tute his own intellect for the instlnC
Of the hen. This he can do In the pun
chase OF an incubator.
OF course. like all other things. th
running OF an incubator must b
learned but this Is not a difficult thin
to do. provided one will listen TO N
advice OF those who have run them 70
many years IL Ia not at all necessar
for one TO learn entirely in the dea
school Of experience. The main poir
In an incubator Is TO keep the tempers
;ure right and to see that when n
chicks come into the brooder they hay
enough heat to enable them 10 make
continuous growth.