The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-03-10
AT THE INCUBATOR SHOW,
Conflicting Opinions on Important
Points-Transferrin Eggs.

TO any one interested in poultry rails
ing the incubator room at such a show
as that recently held in Madison Square
Garden, New York, is full of attrac-
tions The beginner in the poultry in
dustry especially if he is thinking of
adapting artificial Matching, becomes
fascinated and bewildered as he goes
from one to another of the machines
and listens to the stories told by their
makers. The common, everyday lover
of chickens, who isn't the owner of
pen of any kind Of fowls and never ex-
poets to be, looks on and listens with
beaming face, such as one sees in the
gallery just about the time the heroine
in shrill voice says to the villain :
''Leave mel detest you'll"
The young man who had visited the
show with the intention of deciding
which Of the many incubators he would
adopt said he felt just as he did when
he was selecting his first bicycle. Every
maker had the best machine, and each
one had accumulated SO many blue rib
bons that the question of storing and
caring for them was serious problem
at his factory As matter of fact, the
various makes are similar in most of
their characteristics The application
and regulation of the heating are the
points upon which there is widest diff
ference in construction, and the ex-
treme views on the subject of moisture
furnish the greatest variety in the field
of theory Some incubator makers claim
that no artificial moisture is required /;
that, in fact it is detrimental. Others
insist that moisture must be supplied
in liberal quantity. Between these two
classes are those who say moisture must
be supplied by the machine under GER
tain conditions of atmosphere and sur
roundings, and each moisture, anti
moisture or semimoisture advocate
makes his machines to fit his own the
cries. And the young man makes his
selection just as he selected his bicycle
lin some doubt. "But, everything
considered, I think my choice was
sound In a week he is ready to gam
BILE that he's got the best machine ever
made
" b10 lllS6 anu OllO
children, who know nothing of heat and
moisture problems and care less, the most
interesting part of the incubator show
is the bevy of young chicks who have
just left their shellhouses and tumbled
into the nursery under the egg tray.
CANT they cuter" 1.-THE dear little
fuzzy thingsl' Gust look at that little
black rascall' are some of the remarks
that one hears. A youth of about IA
years, with high forehead and bust
nesslike air, says GLOW did you hatch
these chicks in the four days since the
show opened" "They weren't Matched
in four days my young friend They
have been the usual 30 days in getting
here"
ooh, you put the incubators in here
more than two weeks before the show
opened?''
mo, we started the eggs at home,
and the day before the show opened we
took them out of the machines, wrapped
each one carefully in cotton batting
and packed them in wash baskets with
sheets of batting between the layers
They were shipped by express, and a
special caretaker rode in the car to see
that the baskets were not roughly han
died. We had these machines warmed
up ready to receive the eggs. The trans
fer delayed the hatch to some extent
say about one hour for each two hours
that the eggs were out of the machine
but the chicks all arrived, if not on
schedule time, just the same as if the
eggs hadn' been moved :"
''Thank you, remarked the youth
with the high forehead. isn't it
queer2" inquired very handsome
young woman, and though no one audi
bly, answered her profound query all
nodded their heads slowly, as if cogitat-
ing over big and a serious question.
Incubation will make the stupidest
or the most Indifferent chap pause and
consider if he will stand minute be-
fore a machine when the hatch is COM
ing off. JOSEPH R. BUCHANAN.