The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-30

is the cheapest preparation I've ever
used Now that we have our incu-
bators and breeders thoroughly dis
infected. we are prepared to enter an
other Matching season. The first ques-
ton which arises to confront the
novice is, What kind OF incubator.
shall buy?" Get any make you wish,
from any reliable frm. and you won't
go wrong. Whether you buy a hot air
or hot water machine Owe had good
and also bad matches with both) makes
little difference. provided you put good,
strong. fertile eggs into the machine.
Use little of your good common
sense and follow directions. which
come with the machines, and you will
come out all right. Don't make the
mistake Of thinking the manufacturer
ought to have done this or that.
Well Earned Judgment.
Just RENE mber the man who made
the Incubator has spent years and
years perfectjnK 1t to the present
standard. and give him credit Of know
Ing how the machine ought to BIO run.
For instance. know OF party who
had $50 eggs hot-air machine Of one
OF our best known makes. He had it
running nicely for two weeks when.
he read something about the useful
the nursery trays and filled them witt,
wet sand Result: three chickens
Matched out Of 21O fertile eggs. Sand
trays are very fne in machines built
for them. My friends machine got the
fresh air supply through the bottom,
c43sequently when he covered the
burlap bottom with sand he cut OF
the air supply. simply killing off the
little chicks in the shell BY a slow
process Of smothering.
As to the Hen.
There are still lots OF people who
claim hens are preferable to incuba-
tors. Let's look into this little closer.
If you would set. say. thirty hens and
had rare good luck you might get an
average OF ten chicks per. hen. The
chances are you will get nearer $50.
chicks. or an average of five per hen.
particularly at this season Of the year.)
We will leave the figures at ten per
hen. though (which would give US 900
chicks. Now Just think OF the work
and worry Of caring for thirty erratic
sitting hens. Any one with any ex-l
perience with sitting hens has often
started to chop the hens head OFF upon
finding them with the nests all tore
to pieces and the eggs trampled
around In a broken mess.
AS to the Incubator.
But to get back to our subject. With.
$50 egg machine. or, say, two $50
egg machines, YOU could easily hatch.
500 chicks with ten minutes work
morning and evening for filing the
lamp and turning the eggs. II you
live In the city limits and have little
practical ingenuity get piece Of gas
hose and any old reading lamp burner
to take the place Of the lamp and
use gas. In January. 1908, when I
was living in the city, fixed a
Cyphers model, $50 egg capacity. this
way and took off five matches by June
without changing the flame once. Have
tricity now. and expect to do az good
as8I formerly did with gas. BY the
way. one concern has a 80 egg electric
1ncubatorfon the market n Dw, "a i ready
for use. They cost more to run than
oil, but are great savers OF trouble,
as YOU have no lamps to fill etc. All
other 1nestimable value OF incubators
over. hens is freedom Of lice. Only the
seasoned poultryman realizes what an
advantage small chicks free OF 2vermin
have over lousy ones. True, you can
dust the mother. hen with insect pow
der and lice killers, but you cannot
Kill all the lice and never " III. "A
Chick free from vermin will grow
right along like weeds In spring. An
other point in favor Of the incubator
is that II Is always ready to hatch
chickens for us, and we are therefore
wholly independent OF the moods Of our
sitting hens, The hen will not SIT
until she gets good and ready !. and
we can't make her sit by force or
persuasion. We all know 1t Is the
early Matched pullets that make the
Sfall and winter layers at the time you
get fat profits from your eggs, Fear
gafterYea the pullets hatsare matched
late. come to maturity later, and as a
consequences do not get broody until
late In spring, which means another
genera tonAof lat Matched pull 8. Ri
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