Show n A POOR HATCHES IN INCUBATOR Carelessness jn In Manipulation of Machine Machine Ma Ma- chine Is Sure to Bring Disastrous Disastrous Dis Dis- Results Many causes for poor patches natches of chicks In incubators can be traced to the operators not ed educating themselves on wl what at Is necessary In the way of fertile eggs saving eggs for tor Incubation incubation tion and taking care of them Eggs for incubation n should be kept In a awell awell awell well ventilated room with medium tem tem- All An eggs should be turned at least once ery 24 f hours and no eggs should be over ten days or two weeks old at the outside One Ont should be careful to strictly follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low the directions accompanying the incubator The directions for one make of machine do not always do for that of another make for the ventilation regulation etc may be different The principal reason why young chicks die In the shell about the eighteenth day Is a poorly ventilated room Other causes than poorly ventilated rooms are poorly ventilated Incubators and eggs are not properly fertilized An egg poorly fertilized will start to grow and die for lack of vitality Opening up the Incubator during the latter part of the hatch or about the time the chicks s begin to pip lets out the moisture and dries the chicken up In the shell or In other words stops the pores of the shell and causes canses a great eat many to die Under no condition condition con con- should the Incubator be opened after the eighteenth day until the chicks are entirely hatched As a rule beginners with incubators do not read the book of directions properly Many a person who has has' seen een an Incubator and probably run rou a hatch of some other make thinks he knows all aU about It It do does not read rend the directions and makes a fiat flat failure fail fait ure are every time Sometimes no consideration consideration consid consid- Is given to the ventilation of the room In n which the machine Is placed Possibly there may be decayed decayed decayed de de- vegetables therein or the air airIs airIs Is stale There are few failures nowadays by poorly regulated incubators except t tIn In the cheaper line of machines where the temperature will wUl chan change e 10 12 I I Y 1 t N r Splendid prom from rom Incubator and 15 degrees One point I have noticed noticed noticed no no- here at home by by having a green hand set an nn incubator says a writer r Inan in inan inan an exchange He reads the directions maybe thinks thinks' he Se has learned them by heart sets his regulator as soon as the thermometer gets to turns the thumb screw where he supposes is right and places the eggs In the the I machine j I Now the thumb screw and regulator Is a very tender affair and one one turn of the thumb screw will cause a change In the atmosphere inside the incubator tor of three to four de degrees ees It should be be turned slightly abo abort t one fourth of the tile way round so the temperature stands just at I A great mistake is made by paying too much attention to an incubator I never see to my machine more than twice a day once In Jn the morning and once once In the evening I see that the regulator II la Is set properly and everything everything everything every every- thing running nicely before putting In the eggs and then place the eggs In It and do not touch the regulator At first it will lower the temperature a little when the eggs are arc put in I but If the regulator regulator- is properly set et I Ithe the temperature will rise to the prop i I Ier Iud er ud degree re I zI t |