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Title: Artificial incubating and brooding
Year: 1906 (1900s)
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Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: Quincy, IL : Reliable poultry journal Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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the direct re-sult of their fear is insuffi-cient oxygen, weakened embryos and a poor hatch; further-more, even the chicks that have sufficient strength to sunaveto exclusion are to a considerable per cent, debilitated andweaker than they would have been if there had been a suffici-ency of fresh air. For many reasons the common house cellar is an unfit placein which to run an incubator; most cellars are too damp andall are lacking in facilities for admitting fresh air, hence it ismuch wiser to have the incubator room above (or mostly above)ground. THE ABUSE OF INCUBATORS Many people are unfair to their incubators, either throughignorance or carelessness, or both, and do not give them morethan half a chance to do the work an incubator is intended todo. An incubator is precisely like everj other kind of machine,in that it has to be operated by hmnan intelhgence, andif the operator neglects to apply his inteUigence and common-sense, or has a super-abundance of that impalpable quality 42
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INFERTILE EGG (HEN); FOURTEEN DAYS FERTILE EGG (HEN); FOURTEEN DAYS HOW EGGS APPEAR THROUGH A TESTER AT VARIOUS STAGES OF INCUBATION ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION which New England people call carelessness, the results will beunsatisfactory and the incubator manufacturer will get theblame. An incubator is not endowed with intelligence. Thatmost essential quaUty must be supplied by the operator, andthat word intelhgence is very significant. Possibly the termcommon-sense or horse-sense explains it better, because it isnot essential that a man or woman be a trained scholar, but itis necessary that one be able to understand the plain directions,and then follow them. One difficulty is that the instructions have such a differentmeaning to difTerent individuals, because they understand wordsdifferently. Take, for example, the instruction to fill and trimthe lamp once a day. To a careful and tidy housewife thatmeans that the lamp is to be filled pretty well up to the top, thecharred crust of the wick

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