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Show "An egg in the process of hatching," says an expert, ex-pert, "is remarkably sensative to vibration. Half the failures that amateurs encounter in hatching out chicks by the incubator method are due to lack of precaution in providing against tho effect of vibration vi-bration on the eggs. Tho rumble of a train or the passage of a wagon along tho street will spoil a whole incubator full of eggs, if the faintest vibra-' tion wave reaches the apparatus. Even such a little thing as the banging of a door in some other part of the house will destroy tho chances of hatching out a brood, where care has not been taken to place the incubator beyond the reach of such disturbances. A thunder storm always gives breeders a scare, as thousands thous-ands of eggs may be spoiled by a sudden heavy thunder clap. To sneeze or cough in the vicinity of the incubators will sometimes work a disastrous result." |