Show ghe 4 6 cwi n hn 91 kiff Is IVY banca 0 0 0 r I 1 IN a aa R A I 1 ks ti robe ri 11 I 1 IOU holt le af hayt on of 0 the lie hen en frai r t was as cm A 2 SUM ed in f the tl ra dilates last year a nd we m p arted some wk from ina in a to cause broken eggs alib ough the point at issue Is t hat fertile eggs alq less desir S abt y me tn able for table purposes than unfertile ones f atwith theare 4 th 0 e might imagine de elk me on s extent of the agg business in creasing this country the market would be glut leq on the contrary the akmand see to keep pace with the supply in fact a little all ahe adof it or arit it would not be found profitable to ito import eggs from china as was done aye a year aror or two ago 4 all over the country mammoth poultry establishments 0 doubt theman the i man who paid an even lish ments are springing up p not far from chicago for a single hen lady eglantine k Is a large plant made famous by its white plymouth not long T rago ago will get his rocks andian Run runners neri there are money back with liberal interest acres on this farm and houses ar are e scattered the phenomenal value of this hen all over them the man who owns this big plant lay in the fact that she had just sells guelf of ills his stock for breeding purposes and completed the alie astonishing performance values s some of his birds as high as that of producing eggs in sounds like an unbelievable figure to be sure but days it Is assumed that the progeny the very lowest price tor for which one can buy a of Lady Eglantine will also be fowl at this farni farm Is 5 the owner has made a wonderful woud erful egg machines for which fortune Is a bank director and a business man reason her eggs will command the who can take rank with those who manage manag ethe the big highest prices for hatching purposes industries of the city as a matter of fact they are already sell one thinks firstos fir first of eggs in connection with the ing at 5 apiece to be sate safe this Is much of a poultry business but growing and fattening fattening gamble but hundreds of people will be gladdo chickens for them theta table bleIs Is almost as important a take the chance you see the call these days Is brandhof branc hof it as egg farming formerly no one all for for heavy layers for never has the demand thought of specially preparing chickens for the tor for eggebeen eggs been so BO hard bard to meet sixteen billion eggs sla slaughter the farmer simply went the are required to satisfy the A amerlean american mer yard selected a likely looking fowl appetite each year L i laid it on the ba block 0 ck and chopped egg farming has reached a off its bead qu quite 1 te different Is the point where it must be included process now how especially in the west among the big business interests and in canada where fattening of the country and the coming ko poultry has hag developed into more of of of the tha parcel post has already a fine art than in the easte eastern rn states given it added impetus ki all ovar over there is a difference of from the country big plants are springing three to seven cents a pounding pound in the up where chic chickens keni are price paid for well fleshed or fattened hatched by the thousands and bened bird birds iq and that p paid aid tor for poultry shipped tar far and wide at other er just off te range As this plants are being established for means a difference of from 15 t to cus custom tom hatching batching just about as 35 cents on a five pound chicken chicks have been hatched in egypt v it Is well worth while to fatten the since the days of moses over fowls there the hatching esdone Is done in im mense brick ovens of which there are some six hundred in which chickens ar are incubated each season camels dung Is used J 1 ajl 1 lv tor for fuel and the operators have such keen senses that they can keep the temperature at close to degrees without ie referring deferring to a thermometer which instrument Is never employed custom hatching in this country Is quite ani other matter and has been made possible only by the pe invention of incubators of the continuous type heated from a coal burning fur furnace dace and requiring only a comparatively small amount of i attention it Is ii a line of work which farmers wives kand and other women can follow with success and to which alch farmers themselves vei as well as the owners of large poultry plants are turning their attention men bien and women living near the baiger towns and especially if close to the railroad sta tion or on a trolley line are particularly well situated to do custom hatching for people keeping a few hens will come personally with their eggs and also call for the chickens just as they do in egypt by the way except for the means of conveyance ve yance I 1 the tha initial I 1 investment vestment ri need not be large one san can start with a single machine and increase the size of his plant as business warrants A little advertising by means of circulars or better in a newspaper will bring the custom it Is first necessary however to learn all about running the incubator it would be foolish to seek customers before becoming thoroughly familiar with artificial incubation and making several experimental catchings hatch ings these can be made in the fall or winter along with custom hatching goes the sale of day old chicks this Is another line and women wo in the coun country or else elsewhere where who have but little capital may begin in a small way and increase with their business the two branches may well be combined also it if at anytime any time there be a dearth of custom hatching orders I 1 the machines may be kept running just the same to fill orders for newly hatched chickens for hatching chicks a charge based on the number of eggs in an incubator tray la Is often made it if tor for example the tray will accommodate 75 eggs the charge may be 2 and upwards just as much time and fuel are required for a dozen eggs as for 75 of cour course seif it the eggs to be Ve hatched for several customers are received nt at the some same time they can be placed in the same machine but it will be very difficult to decide to whom the chicks belong when they are out of thes the shells bells it if the hatcher batcher Is using single machines it ir I 1 wise to employ the smaller sizes the machines which come in sections are most mosi satisfactory for they can be added to like sectional bookcases as ones busi business nees grows of course the custom hatcher takes tabes no responsibility he does his best and it if the eggs fall to hatch the loss Is the customers to mers the hatcher has na no means of knowing that they were fertile even until attest at the end of five days Is made likewise the hatcher runs no open ae accounts counts it if he Is wise A deposit should be madI mad ewhen when the eggs are left and the remain remainder dez paid when the chicks are delivered day arenest ar are ebest best sold at a flat rate say 15 5 cents apiece aple ce with delivery charges added strongly made cardboard boxes especially de signed tor for shipping chicks are manufactured and COME r protect the chick from harm if shipped as soon boon as dried off no food will be required for a chicken needs nothing to eat for the first two days of its existence after leaving the shell being nourished by the the egg which it has baa absorbed for that reason people who complain that the practice of withholding feodis food Is cruel are wasting belr sympathies to just what what extent ahse i new developments will revolutionize the poultry ry business of the country no one can safely even guess it Is certain etain though that hundreds of people who formerly raised a few chicks chack each season with hens will wilf now either cither send their hatching eggs to a custom hatchery or buy day old chicks the expense Is bu but little greater and hours of fussing with broody hens are eliminated people living in the cities citie binay now keep liens hens in the back yard for they will ivill need iced no fo roosters andtius and thus avoid the corn com p of neighbors and can keep breeds which do not get broody one thing is certain though if the egg producers are going to make the most of their opportunities port unities many of them will have hav i e to reform their methods the statement Is made apparently with authority that there is an annual loss of because of the I 1 improper handling of eggs much of this loss can be traced directly to the producers the men and women on the farms su such ch ducts are responsible in part forthe for the present much discussed high cost of living many farmers let their eggs accumulate until they get a basketful although irmay take several weeks fertile and infertile eggs are dumped IV ID the same am e lot it if a hidden nest Is discovered t the lie old hen Is 18 shooed away and the half incubated eggs are sold along alth the others this Is the reason wl why y the average market egg I 1 is unreliable incubation has begun in a fertile egg before it Is laid in a few days daya traces of the embryo may easily be discovered even though the egg simply be kept in a warm room or allowed to remain in the sun ordinarily the germ soon per perishes lAes and then ahe egg Is quickly added to the rotten egg class an unfertile egg may be kept for many weeks without going bad although it may get somewhat stale and consequently unfit tor for the table under ill the present system the customer custom eris Is protected ton to a large extent by the big bg egg merchants who examine the eggs which pass through cheti hands by means of a test known as candling this candling Is a highly important part of the business in most cities and on the care and expertness with which the work Is done depends the quality of the product which the customer secures the men who candle eggs become remarkably expert erpert so expert that they manhandle can handle two eggs in each hand and grade grad ethem them at a glance as th they eyare are passed quickly before a hole in a tin shade placed before a strong electric light eggs from flocks which contain no male bird except in the breeding season will keep longer and bel belletter lie better than those laid by hens with which it rooster Is running many people still hold coill to A antiquated belief that henscha hen lay y better if attended tte by a i roQ rooster ster this Is a pure fallacy in point of fact the roosters annoy the hens bons and may |