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Show Hatching a Wild Fowl. Will wonders never cease? Surely there can be nothing surprising under the sun when a man utterly annihilates space, compresses time, tames seeming ly ungovernable elements, and even usurps the prerogatives or nature Itself to serve hlB convenience and pleasure! There's opportunity for volumes in the thought, but the reader is spared the burden and the writer the work with the mere suggestion that the Iricubator Is not the least, significant of some of our modern inventions. Of course, It ruthlessly tears away, from ope of our most respected domestic fowls the great prerogative of motherhood, but it compensates, In a way, by relieving her of a few weeks of tedious waiting and reflection. Besides, It does the business bus-iness satisfactorily, and that is what this commercial ace demands. It has remained for a Wisconsin association, as-sociation, however, to put the incubator to a unique use hatching wild fowl for hunting purposes. The Idea is all right. Wo have State fish hatcheries, why not State wild fowl hatcheries? Experiments conducted so far show that the scheme Is altogether feasible, and, this being so, a great opportunity Is open for sportsmen. Every man can be his own game producer. Just as soon oa some genius discovers a method of manufacturing eggs, thereby insuring insur-ing a safe supply, the scheme will be complete. .K.'u p,a-ntt51Bh"1(! b0 ble to get a match nt tho Knickerbocker Athletic club. |