Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-03-24
Very truly yours,
Answers AND INQUIRIES.


ANSWERS AND INQUIRIES.
Mr.. Loring Brown: AS this is my
first season with an incubator, I
would like to ask few questions. /
have a Bell City machine, and with
every hatch about the tenth day the
burner seems to catch afire. the
flame running down on the wick. and
the lamp gets hot, and If not found
Immediately it fills with smut, put
ting out the light In the meantime
the Thermometer runs up and one
time it broke. 1 fill lamp and trim
burner each day, always emptying
lamp and filing with fresh oil and
(this time / am using the precautiop
to strain oil through fianneD taking
an old tooth brush and brush off
the burner each time. / clean boiler
about three times a. week and often
If there is any smut, using damp
cloth and soap.
What makes so many incubator
biddies ruptured and what is the
cause of some of them being Grip
pied, and some of them with crooked
necks?
Does moisture help, and when
should it be added, and how? My
instructions say that it is unneces-
sary, but my matches are so poor I
think perhaps they would do better
If a little moisture was put in.
How long can one keep eggs TO
set and for an incubator If turned
each day?
Yours truly,
MRS. ]. G. YATES
Quitman, Ca, March 10, 1911.
ANSWER.
II you have kept up with my arti-
cles closely, you will see why you
have some OF your troubles. A gas
forms in your lamp and distills the
oil and it becomes hot, and the dis
titled oil drawn UP through the flue
and around the burner makes II
catch afire. If you will leave the cap
off the lamp, or put nall hole in
the cap so that the air can circulate
in it, and not running your flame too
high, you will probably relieve the
trouble 1t is also necessary, once a
week, to remove the wire screen on
the burner and thoroughly clean out
the SCOT that has accumulated under
this wire screen. 1t will also cause
the lamp to smoke, as the air cannot
circulate through 1t when it once
becomes clogged.
Crippled chickens are the ones that
do not absorb all the contents of the
egg, showing that the incubator is
not run at uniform temperature. You
should be more careful about trying
to keep an even temperature. See
that your machine is perfectly level
and that your Thermometers are good.
Place four different thermometers in
different parts of the machine and see
II they all register alike.
Eggs should not be kept over two
or three weeks before setting.
Turning once or twice per week is
sufficient If kept standing on the
small end. The sooner you can set
them after being laid, the better
matches you will get. Read my last
four articles on artificial incubation,
and I am confident they will give you
some Information that will help you.
Mr.. Loring Brown: / have some
acreage in south Georgia; also in
Kissimmee, Fla, but do not know
which Is better adapted to raising
chickens, etc, the same Of which /
am seriously contemplating in the
near future.
Now, If my question is out OF or
der, or foreign to those generally ask
ed regarding the feathered tribe,
will be greatly indebted to you II
you will give me your general knowl-
edge of the above locations. contain
ing both the good and bad advan-
tages of each location. I and several
of my close associates have hearo
so many conflicting statements re-
garding south Georgia and Florida on
the subject of chicken raising, ETC.,
and at the same time have never
learned anything we considered re-
liable as well as authentic, and decid-