Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1908-04-15
INCUBATOR CHAT

IL beats baby for keeping man up
nights. Say your prayers often IL
you've bought a bargain Some incu-
b2tors improve on acquaintance; 9TH
ers are advertised improvements that
do not improve mans morals But
beg pardon, or course you have Sc
cured first class machine and set il
with good eggs I'm we'll aired room
where the temperature stands at Go
degrees. Now for n short chat.
The hot air machine warns up soon
er and nuciuates less than the warm
water incubator. Same with brooders.
Then there's no water tank TO fill. melt
when forgotten nor leak Before Won
run for the timer put q handful OF
chop I'm the tank TO stop the leak. They
use IL in radiators It's good plug. IL
You happen - have poor regulator
You can keep the thermometer at 100
degrees 10y simply increasing or lower
Lis lie lamc. but don't forget that a
haUie in newly filed lamp will rise
o. itself. so X watchful When the
e-i.s watnI up. remember that their
animal heat increases. and rs the
chick develops there is more heat I'M
% the last week. especially In warm
weather. the heat from the growing
chick will some days run the incu-
bator. Running hatcher with damper
up Is oil waste 4 smoking lamp is
dangerous. II not a charred wick. a
poorly fitting chimney. bad oil. dirty
burner or chimney showed too tight
~ into the fiue. the fue itself NAV be
cloGged with SCOT or stopped with some
obstacle IT you cannot prevent IL.
throw the machine out To sell a
secondhand fire hatcher Is n capital
crime Don't go crazy if the heat oc-
casionally runs above 1O3 degrees.
About the best temperature is IO2 de-
Erees 10 lo3 degrees the first week. IO3
degrees the remainder When the Their
momcter hangs up IL should be a de.
gree higher. We have seen the heat at
10 degrees and good hatch followed.
but to remain az that point long means
baked eggs. The Matching temperature
Il between 100 degrees and 1O5 degrees
When the heat is higher than 1O5 de-
grees. take out the eggs. cool and roll
them and adjust the dame. 4 good
incubator Is not trickster, and we
never have such things 10 worry us.
In cooling eggs the time of turning
Is sufficient for the first week. ten min
utes the second and fifteen minutes
morning and night OF the third. Mark
the eggs with IN " Turn the trays
end for end the second day. Begin
ming with the third day, turn the eggs
half over morning and evening until
they begin 10 pip. about the eighteenth
day. They will hatch too soon IL Won
run your machine too high or drag
along If You run low heat. Neither
Is good The latter Will stick chicks
in the shell. You Will forget solhe-
times. We left Il tray OF eggs cool
TWO hours last summer. yet they hatch
ell. We left an incubator door open
till the eggs got cold while the chicks
were picking the shell Got n good
hatch. Wonders viii never cease even
If we are dumb and have good forget
tiers. SO don't cry II something like
that happens and throw the hatch out.
You can tell by test when the eggs
get hot if they are pretty we'll devel-
oped. They'll wiggle in the shell.
Don't-le some of these incubator in
structions scare you. The more rank
some machines are the more particu-
lar and extensive the code OF rules to
run them by and the more loopholes
and technicalities for escaping re-
fund when the smash comes.
Watch that thermometer II the sill
YER thread is not solid, but keeps d.
viding, throw il out An air space in
that thread may make little speck
at the end YOU overlook. You may
run one point at 1903 degrees, while the
little Speck is the real end and roast
ing your chicks ut 10.
Some sprinkle the eggs with warm
water the eighteenth day. We use the
machine with the big wet sand tray,
and it does dandy. If you have ma
chine like ours, You don't have to rock
the incubator cradle all night