Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-08
tcopyrisht. 1914. by A. S. Gray,
THE FOUNDATION OF HEALTH

|
awakening and for its maintenance up
on the influence of certain chemical
factors, among which heat and mois.
ture may be regarded as paramount
The organisms now living on this
earth are known as plants and ami
mails and without exception one and
all are subject to the same laws. This
makes for a close correspondence
among all life and thus 1t is possible
for US to unravel and expose the tan
gled sources of our physical ills with
comparative ease. The study of plants
is called botany and that of the ami
mails is known as zoology. while the
| study of living things in general, in
cluding both animals and plants. is
known as biology. Humanity owes a
vast debt to biology and that debt is
| increasing every day.
Biology teaches us that there is no
room for chance in nature and that
| unrestricted growth never results in
| discord. Discord is always artificial.
Wherever there is any unnatural
condition we know there must have
been some interference to account for
it. And the present drift in the medl-
cal world is to locate this interference.
Research work conducted along
these lines with fish, chickens and the
like has recently exposed many inter.
esting and extremely Illuminating
facts with relation to the subject of
the disease known as cancer. and
makes 1t very clear that We easily
might solve most of our physical trou-
bles in much the same way If We
would only learn to heed the lessons
acquired in the handling of the lower
organisms.
Incubation is word in common
use; it is derived from the Latin words
meaning to brood. or to lie on, and
specifically 1t means the action of the
hen in sitting on her eggs to hatch
them; the word is also used in pathol-
ogy as expressing the development
within the human body of the germs
of disease, and 1t is especially asso-
ciated with the artificial means of
Matching eggs with incubators or for
any analogous purposes of an artificial
foster-mother nature. Artificial incu-
baton was known to the Egyptians
and to the Chinese almost from time
immemorial. but it is Of comparatively
recent use In this country.
An incubator consists of a closed
chamber provided with suitable de-
vices for supplying and regulating def
mite degrees of heat and moisture.
This degree must be within the linn
Its of the particular species of life
to be Matched, because while all or
| ganisms are plastic and can tune them
| selves to a greater or less degree of
variation in their physical environ
ment there Is certain range differing
for each species which must be main
tanned II artificial incubation is to be
successfully conducted.
II 100 ordinary fertile hens eggs are
placed in an incubator equipped with
a suitable device for regulating the
amount of heat. air and moisture ad.
mitted, and it be regulated to main
tain temperature Of approximately
103 degrees Fahrenheit. very marked
changes may be noted in the interior
of the egg from day to day as the re.
suit Of the absorption of the heat.
Assuming the temperature and mois.
ture in the interior of the incubator
to have been normal, Gambling the 100
eggs on about the fifth day of incuba.
ton will reveal remarkable changes
taking place in them; the developing
germ, with blood vessels radiating
from 1t like a spider web, will be dis
tinctly visible. Gambling again about
the tenth day will show a further ad
vance, and at this time usually not q
few of the developing chicks will be
found to have died. The percentage
dying at this stage is determined by
the general vitality Of the flock laying
the eggs. II for any reason the fioch
Is not in normal condition there will
not be sufficient vitality in the germs
to carry them further and they die
Again on the fourteenth day It is Gus
tomary to candle or test for the dead
ones. for again there will be somt
with only sufficient energy to get this
far. Between the tenth and fifteenth
days the chick becomes relativel,
large and bulky. the temporary re
spiratory apparatus. together with III
veins, increases greatly in size and ex
tent and the life processes proceed
with greater activity. On the nine
teenth day it is the rule again t.
search for the dead ones and then tn,
machine is usually not touched agail
until the hatch is completed.
If the temperature and moistur,
have been maintained approximatel!
normal, the chicks will break through
their shells on the twenty-first day
Chicks resulting from a norma
hatch are active and alert. They be
gin to pick about and feed as soon a
dry and under ordinary care easil.
reach maturity. But chicks from eth
er a premature or delayed hatch ar.
Inactive from the start. not alert an,