The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-04-20
THE INCUBATOR CELLAR.

The incubator room should have an
even, constant temperature, prefer
ably never above 60 degrees. A dwell
ing house cellar is good place for
machine, provided the ventilation is
good. A specially built cellar with two
or three feet of the wall above ground
makes an ideal place to run machines
as it will furnish plenty CT ventilation
and light. When the machine is oper-
ated In the dwelling house. a special
arrangement sholld &c mad, with the
insurance company The machine
should be placed away from draughts
land the sun should not shine on 1t dur
ing the day or It will cause TOO high a
temperature. The incubator room
should be easily accessible and nor in
an out of the way place.
The Kind Of Macane-The kind Of
machine used lies ent're'y with the
individual, but IL ia poor economy 20
buy cheap machine CO. one tina, has
a good reputation and has been tried
out and works succe:,,iully up ..er con-
ditions similar 10 yours The success
or failure in Artificial incubaiiup de-
ponds largely On tn, machine. 1t must
be we'll built and have lie lamp con-
veniently located. The lamp should be
large enough 10 holi more t1an "a
hours oil supply. 1hA machine should
not be effected by sudden drops in
outside temp aTd:ltra, as the average
person does no. have time to look af-
ter it several times day. Remember
that the first cost u small rs compared
with the value OF Inc eggs put in It.
Starting the Machine The machine
should be heated up and regulated sew
era. days before the eggs are Put III
but the wick should not be TIRED ;ery
high until the incuDlt,r Is we neat
ed o. considerab', smoking will re-
suit. After II has run lew hours the
wick can be turned up and tha regu-
lat tor so adjusted so that the desired
tenn erature MAJ ha obtained. When X
has run for q coutie or days without
variation the eggs NAV be placed in II.
Care Of the Lamp-rhe lamp should
be filled and the wick trimmed once a
|
and the oil shol' he carefully wiped
from the outside ii the lamp. 'rhe wick
should be trimmed 50 that the name is
round. Any tenianCy Of the flame to
shoot off at the corners wall cause
smoking and will till the chimney with
or may cause the lamp to go ont. If the
lamp is looked ai:er carefully there is
practically no danger Of any trouble.
The oil used shoIid be of d hiGh grade.
The ordinary keroSine gives eff too
many fumes and is often the .ause CT
the lamp smoking. DO not Sc, the
lamp on top OF the machine while
trimming the wick
Temperature-The directions in re-
gard to the temperature sent out by
your incubator nanuf ,ctnrer should
be followed. Owing to the different
methods of heating and ventilatins i'll
cubators, no general rule can be laid
down. 1t is more imporIaEr tn have a
good thermometer OF the type that i3
| regularly FURNISHED with The machine.
Do not have too low OF too high a
| temperature as the former viii caasc
| the hatch to come 3ff late ami the
latter will .alsa 1t 10 came toe carl>
The temperature must be watched
closely during the Matching time as
the energy expended by tie chick IN
getting out of the she'll raises the tenn
perature of the machine. This must
NOT no allowed tn 81 1Vn. ln5 deprep3
To regulate at this lime TURN down
the flame. When the hatch is over and
before the chicks are dried the tenn
perature will take sudden drop. This
is very critical time, AMI many good
chicks are ruined at this period Of the
hatch on account of getting too hot
or too cold. 1t is important not to al
low a drop in temperature and thus
cool the chicks. The lamp can be turn
ed UP enough to take care Of this drop.
Moisture-This question is an i'm
portant one. Experimental work
shows that moisture is an important
factor in incubation. Under some
conditions the humidity may be high
enough to furnish sufficient moisture,
but generally it seems to be an ad-
vantage to have it in the machine as
we'll as to be able to moisten the floor
of the incubator cellar. 1t has been
notd in natural incubation that bet
ter matches are had when birds have
their nests where it is moist rather
than where it Is dry.