Show t FARM boltry roL TRY GATHER EGGS OFTEN IN SEVERE WEATHER success in selling hatching eggs or in getting good hatching eggs for your own incubators to supply you yon with chicks for the baby chick trade Is dependent a great deal upon gathering the eggs during the winter months at frequent intervals but even market eggs require the same attention in order to get the best results in freezing weather the eggs may lie in the nest three or four hours before freezing but there la Is no reason for subjecting them to such a temperature for on any y length of time if they are to be used for hatching purposes or sold tor for hatching eggs you owe it to yourself or your customer to gather them as soon as laid if possible any unnecessary exposure to the temperature will more or less the th hatching quality and the vigor of the chick where it Is at all possible especially in severe weather ieather it Is advisable to visit the nests every SO 30 minutes and gather such eggs as can be gathered ca without disturbing hens on nests so long as there Is a hen ben on a given nest the eggs under her are in no danger those who are fortunate enough to have double walled and frostproof frost proof houses are not in as much danger of loss as those whose hens are indifferently housed the ideal way to handle winter hatching eggs Is to put them in tile the incubator the same day they are laid says a writer in successful farming ln however tills this Is not often possible unless one has a large flock laying enough to fill the incubators some hatchers catchers hat chers remedy the situation by having small incubators and setting then them every d day a y or two during the season or where large machines are used setting separate compartments where this is impossible and the eggs must be stored a few days before placing in the machines or shipped to customers it Is best to place them in a clean and dry but well ventilated place where an average temperature of about 40 to 45 degrees Is maintained A regular incubator cellar Is 13 good for tills this purpose but do not place the eggs in a damp poorly ventilated or musty vegetable cellar if you do not have a clean cellar it is better to place them on a ground floor where the room Is heated sufficiently to keep keel it from freezing in storing eggs for hatching purposes it Is best to place them in flat Nici wooden oden trays incubator trays not irk in use are good for this purpose or may be made along that style A cabinet may be made of a number of these trays nailed together which will be handy and serviceable turn the eggs every day from the timothey tIm time ethey they are taken from the nest until they are placed in the machine this Is to prevent the germ sticking to the shell and rendering the egg worthless for incubation purposes get the eggs into the machine or under hens or off to the customer at the earliest possible moment every day that passes lessens the chances of the utmost success evaporation la 13 the constant enemy of the held beld over hatching egg and the langer iunger this progresses the less the chance of getting a strong virile chick |