Show LOGAN JOTTINGS ART iVILA bini fini I 1 f ic 1 N HATCHING march blaich ma 1885 1883 editor diset deser deseret eus evs people are busy here preparing for conference un feren ce and its hordes of visit visitors 0 irs its I 1 know inow of no place in utah and I 1 am bode boue what acquainted where a more I 1 geulah hospitable spirit exists than in loam loann the weather is s delightful some times a cloud rises in the west but everyone says and a au 1 I hope that the pie pleasant nant pant sunshine will smile upon our conference I 1 TWO I 1 deputy MARSHALS aroi fron idaho are arg said sald maidby by rumor to be avat I 1 aroun cT here we are cx ex iram hait mait shit balt lake atcon at conference timeout time but nobody seeing seem excited averit ov over oyer erit it yesterday I 1 visited about the BIGGEST HENS ilens NEST I 1 was vas ever lucky luciia enough to see I 1 will atif tir and aud describe dy scribe it in an upper uncarpeted vacant room were placed two large boxes one called the incubator cu bator wax waa 4 feet 10 inches in length by 4 feel feet 4 inches in width andra leet feet 4 inches deep deev it was made of roub rou b pine pine pini boards on the top nothing was ws seen icen seen but a few tiny pipes sti sticking ki lg L up P from a bed of sawdust t The Ther lady huly mrs james who has th this Is gros grossot I 1 chickens in charge kindly explained to me the arrangement of the whole she drew out a hu hue c drawer from the side in which were lout tout or live chickens just out of the shell and seventy or eighty eggs about aboul lio liu or 11 ha vine hatched and been removed to the brooder the bottom of the drawer on which rests the eggs ia is made matte of sacking beneath it is a hot air box or ventilator from which the sis pipes go up above bove bose the drawer is another hot at iho pho air ibo box x into which or rather out of which go two tivo pipes curved to fit lit over two lamps one on each side these lamps supply the heat and the heat is regulated by two thermometers on the top of this box is a thick bed of sawdust saw dust the drawer id Is fitted with a slide which will wilt turn the eggs over halfway hallway whenever drawn 0 on a tue the other side of ot mhd the room was A WORTH SEEING Corral corrai corralled ledl in by boards placed edgewise and in the centre of which stood a large box called the brooder chirped abou about y a hundred and fifteen chickens tiny fluffy little balls black gray 1 and creamy white they twittered and ran about in and ana and out of the little flannel doors of the brooder much as they would if it were werd a huge hugn hen do they miss their mothers do 10 you think T Mrs airs james laughingly replied that slie sile hubn taken int into 0 the chicks affection f fec Q c tion ft hi place of a inathe mot mol hershe sho she pru pra 13 fumed uma da for or whenever sli she e went down they set u up a terrible cry and chirrup keeping it up without intermission until her return S tim TRY BROODER is gli gil jagt at half as larce large as the incubator naff naif is fitted lilted with a hot air box and covered with a bed of sawdust on top one lampl lamp supplies the heat and underneath is a tray of sacking which can be withdrawn to be cleaned little pieces of bf flannel are fastened up in and olt oat at of which the file tumbling little creatures are constantly going I 1 took the liberty of asking mr james some questions about MIE THE EXPENSES 8 ETC the whole affair which was made by a brother in an adjoining I 1 settlement ett lement cosco costo two gallons of oil were used in heating the boxes up after which the egas were put in ana and since then 24 I 1 days aad four gallons of oil have been consumed As soon qoon as this lot of eggs have been taken out another will v ill ili be 66 put in here is a HOME nome INDUSTRY which could most certainly be made very pleasant and profitable eggs sell here at about a bit a dozen from f eggs which just fills the incubator incubatory to hatch batch out it will cost about ten cents apiece to feed the chickens until ready for market and then from froni twenty cents to thirty cents apiece will be realized for them six sittings or broods could easily b be e obtained through the season mr james was just putting up his hen house houm saying he had preferred to wait until sure of his chickens before getting the coop let us hope many will be led to follow this good example ADELAIDE |