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Show ELECTRIC INCUBATOR IS BIG Machine Built for New Orleans Poultry Poul-try Raiser Has Capacity of 6,000 Eggs How Worked. One of the largest electric incubators incuba-tors in use anywhere in the world was built for a poultry raiser In New Orleans. It is 40 feet long by 5 feet wide, and contains 40 compartments, each having a capacity of 150 eggs, says the Popular Mechanics. Each compartment can be separately con- j Incubator of 6,000 Capacity. trolled, so that any one, or. all of the compartments, can be operated, according ac-cording to the number of eggs to be hatched. - The controlling thermostats thermo-stats used do not completely break the heater circuit, but introduce the comparatively com-paratively high resistance of a small electric lamp when open, thus avoiding avoid-ing sparking at the contacts. |