The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-28

fact that | had sold capOnS at 70 cents
per pound and had some that weighed
II pounds. The following spring, |
received letter from lady, enclosing
a dollar for a setting of capOn eggs
and this part of the letter underscOred: ::
Il intend to see for myself whether
this is true or not" That letter taught
me to see whether what | read is
true or not
Very many of my correspondents
want me to tell them exactly how to
operate their incubatOrs in their 10
cality, etc. l must refer all such in
quirers to my notes in February Plant
er, page I'D, last paragraph, second
column. This is all l can say to any
one There can be no fixed rule or
Instructions given to operate any in
cubatOrs under all conditions. l have
been operating incubatOrs for 13 years
and still find new conditions. There
is but one infallible rule, and that is
the appearance of the egg at the va
riOus stages of incubation. The best
way to learn this is to set a hen at
the same time you start the machine
with the same kind of eggs. Note
very carefully how long it requires
the hen to get her clutch of eggs warm
through to the bottom. You will find
that it takes from "a to SO hours.
Regulate your machine to do likewise.
Test the eggs the evening of the fifth
day. Note their appearance and COM
pare them carefully. Test again the
tenth and the fifteenth day, and regu-
late the heat, the ventilation and
moisture so that the eggs in the ma
chine look as near as possible like
those under the hen. If the eggs in
the machine are too dark. (the out
small, give less moisture or more air
bright red, give them less ventilation
If they are drying down too fast give
less air. or more moisture, as the case
may require. If the air cell is too
'IIV 9Lom 10 9Ims!Om ss9I 9A!S Uguus
After the fifteenth day, the egg be-
comes opaque and nothing can be seen
but the size of the air cell This
should show nearly One-fifth the in
terror capacity of the egg by the 10th
day. Keep the machine closed at
Matching time. Hang a thermometer
in the machine, where you can see it,
several days before chicks hatch. and
note the temperature at this place
when the temperature on the tray is
right, then, when chicks come out and
turn your tray thermometer tOpsy
turvey, you can keep your temperature |
by the hanging thermometer. 1t takes |
time and patience to learn to hatch |
chicks successfully. Cal HusSelman
Touching the whOpper about the big
poultry farm-During the long years
we have edited the Planter, we have
made it rule to use the scissors with |
very great caution and as little as
possible. Our readers will bear us
out in the assertion that there is less
clipped matter i'll the Planter than in
any other journal of like character.
At times, we are almost compelled to
Use clipping, to fill out column
i'm a great hurry to keep the press
from standing. This was how the clip
ping i'm question came to be used. We
never clip except from the best con-
Quoted journals. and using only these
we assume that the matter published
therein is reliable, and may be ac-
cepted without verificatiOn. The para
graph in question shows how possible
it is for us to fall down with the Use
Of even the best papers for this Dur
pose. OF course there is an error
in the paragraph. for no
hens ever laid 420 eggs each in one
wear. We presume the error is i'm
giving the number of colonies. Prob
300 instead of 100. We did not verify