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Show RESEARCH PAYS OUT IN RESULTS . Successful research isn't always : a matter of coming up with some magic new plant or chemical. Of- 1 ten it's a painstaking effort to ; find better ways of doing things' Three scientists of the U. S. Department De-partment of Agriculture worked ' four years to find the best way to hatch baby chicks. They learned learn-ed what- the best incubator tern- perature is, what the best humid- -ity is, what the best percentage of oxygen in the air is. When they began their work, ' only about 60 percent of the eggs set in incubators hatched. Now 70 percent is standard and 80 per j cent hatches are not uncommon. " The research cost $40,000. It is ea- $' timated that the results are worth ; $1,500,000 a year to the poultry ' industry a return of 37 y2 times, . not just one year but every year. s. Research pays! V |