Show SUPPLIES DURING A SIEGE Primitive Incubators Used When Gibraltar Gib-raltar Was Beleaguered Some months after the siege of Gibraltar Gib-raltar began Admiral Rodney reached the rock with twentyono ships of the line and brought In vast quantities of supplies In April 1781 about a year after Rodneys visit Admiral Darby with the British grand fleet also anchored at Gibraltar and brought in supplies On one occasion a vessel from Naples was driven to the rock with 6000 bushels of barley which tho garrison found of unspeakable unspeak-able value Then too while tho bombardment bom-bardment destroyed most of the houses the English found it possible to raise large amounts of vegetables and garden supplies They even raised chickens followIng follow-ing out an original method of incubation incuba-tion the forerunner of the process in vogue today Eggs were put In tin cans and kept heated by water until they hatched In order to get the brood cared for it was necessary to take a capon pull out the breast feathers scratch the fowls breast with nettles until It bled and then settle him upon the downy chicks The relief given the smarting wounds by the soft down of the brood was so great that adoption speedily followed Chicago Chronicle |