Show money in alligator raising hatching alligators is the latest use to which incubators have been put beginning with chickens ducks geese and turkeys the use of incubators was extended to ostriches and bab es and now a manager of an alligator farm in arkansas has adopted the use of incubators there an alligator is in its propagating habits between a fish and a hen it a ams in the wa er 1 ke a fish and fays eess but instead of laying them in the water it goes out and makes a nest anthe land lil e a hen in this nest it 1 twenty five or thirty eggs and then frosts to the v arm weather to hatch them out the period of incubate on of 11 ll gator eggs is not accurately cnown but it ap five weeks ora fortnight longer than chicken eggs or a week longer than duck eggs most of the alligators hatched at the alligator farms are sold in infancy for 1 apiece to visitors from the north As many alligators are raised to maturity as the swamps and streams of the alligator farm will remit they are valuable for the hides which are used tor bags belts purses and like purposes the supply of alligators is much less than the demand as the hide hunters have killed off all they could fand and there is as et no close sea son in the game laws for their pro like the terrapin they are becoming extinct in their wild state at the alligator farms no more old alligators are kept than are needed tor breeding purposes most of them are sold when a month or six weeks old and the others are killed at an early age when the hides are more pliable and aas ly worked alligator farming so far has proved a profitable industry amateur nat muralist in new york tribune i r AA A f at k tet |