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Show Clean Incubator Before It Is Placed in Storage At the close of the hatching season, when we are in the rush work of caring car-ing for brooder chicks, feeding the growing flock, with possibly garden work or perhaps bees to care for, we are apt to overlook the necessity of cleaning and properly caring for the Incubator before storing It away. A little carelessness at this time may mean delay and expense at the beginning be-ginning of next hatching season, says a poultryman in the Indiana Farmer's Guide. As soon as the last hatching is over it is time to prepare the incubator for storing. Drain the pipes, if the Incubator In-cubator is a hot water machine; and be sure that all the water drains out. Clean the lamp flues, and boil the burner in soda water. Brush out the egg trays and the nursery trays, cleaning clean-ing them thoroughly of down and dirt. Wire screen may be washed In lukewarm luke-warm soapsuds. After the machine has been thoroughly cleaned Inside and outside, spray ail the interior parts with some good disinfectant, then store In a dry, safe place until needed again, , when it will be ready for duty without delay or unnecessary expense. |