Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1915-01-14
tcOpyrisht. 1914. VA. S GraD
THE FOUNDATION OF HEALTH.

ture may be regarded as paramount
The organisms now living on thl
earth are known as plants and an
mails and without exception one an
all are subject to tho same laws. Thi
makes for close correspondence
among all life and thus 1t is possibl
Tor US to unravel and expose the tar
gled sources Of our physical ills wit
comparative ease. The study Of plant
ID called botany and that Of the an
mails Is known as zoology. while tn
study Of living things in general, in
Guiding both animals and plants, 4
known as biology. Humanity owes {
vast debt to biology and that debt Il
increasing every day.
Biology teaches US that there is NJ
room for chance in nature and thai
unrestricted growth never results II
discord. Discord is always artificial
Wherever there Is any unnatural
condition We know there must have
been some interference to account for
1t. 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
alike 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.
blee In much the same way II we
would only learn to heed the lessons
acquired in the handling OF the lower
organisms.
Incubation Is a word in common
use; 1t Is derived from the Latin words
meaning to brood. or to lie on, and
specifically It 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
tmmemorial. but 1t 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 lin.
Its Of the particular species of life |
to be Matched, because while all or.
ganisms are plastic and can tune them
selves to q greater or less degree of |
variation In their physical environ
ment there is a certain range differing
for each species which must be main.
tanned II artificial incubation is to be
conducted.
II 100 ordinary fertile hens eggs are
placed in an incubator equipped with
n 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 II 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 a
lew OF the developing chicks will be
iound to have died. The percentage
lying at this stage is determined by
he general vitality of the flock laying
he eggs. II for any reason the flock
8 not In normal condition there will
lot be sufficient vitality In the germs
% carry them further and they die.
Again on the fourteenth day it is GUS
Omary to candle or test for the dead
ines, for again there will be some
With only sufficient energy to get this
ar. Between the tenth and fifteenth
lays the chick becomes relatively
arge and bulky. the temporary re-
Ipiratory apparatus. together with its
'eins, increases greatly In size and ex.
ent and the life processes proceed
Nth greater activity. On the nine.
eenth day 1t is the rule again TO I
earch for the dead ones and then the 6
Machine is usually not touched again ]
NTH the hatch is completed. s
II the temperature and moisture
ave been maintained approximately .
ormal. the chicks viii break through I
heir shells on the twenty.irst day. :
Chicks resulting from a normal c
atch are active and alert. They be- T
in to pick about and feed as soon as .
~ and under ordinary care easily
Zach maturity. But chicks from eth
r a premature or q delayed hatch are q
lactiVe from the start. not alert and q
ally contract all manner Of bowel III
lssases liz
Under The most favorable conditions ,