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Show Mysteries of Incubation. HHH To the novlco there are no myste- ries about Incubators. He has read a HHfl few things about them, and the way HHI seems plain. A man who had had noth- HHfl lng to do with incubators was telling IIJ the writer ot this how easy It was to man ago them, saying he proposed to try ono before long "It would bo so flflj Interesting." Ills remark elicited the H Inquiry: "Did you over try one?" to flflj which ho repllod, "Ob, no, but It Is flflj easy enough." The man who has run flflj Incubators knowB that It Is not "easy H enough" sometimes. The old hen Is H adjusted somowhat automatically; sho H seems not to mind temperatures or1 H supplies ot moisture, and In due tlmo flflj brings off her hatch. But with the flflj incubator it Is different. It must bo- flflj studied. Tho cheerful amateur soon finds that thoro aro mysteries about It BmaJ ho has to learn or try to learn. Ho flflj has boon told that certain locations, flflj ns In tho cellar, aro tho best places for flflj tho Incubator. Ho tries It and falls. flflj to get a good batch. Ho then putsi flflj his Incubator In somo place he had flflj boon warned against and succeeds. flH Why? Thon the temperature. He hasi . JH been told to keep his Incubator atl flH 102 or 103 degrees. He trios to do so. HHJ But In a short time he finds that there HHJ Is a great variety of temperature In Hfl tho Inoubator, the temperature ot the, HHJ eggs being one thing and over the HHJ eggs another. He begins to wonder HHJ whore his standard of temperature Is HHJ to be. He 1b given full Instructions fl on how to use the regulator, and fo)-i HJ lows directions beautifully and suo- HJ oesstully gonerally, but now and thon HHJ It does not seem to give proper rei HHJ suits and bis eggs get too hot or tooi HJH cold. Why? The question ot moisture Rl claims some ot bis attention, and be WfM begins to read up on the matter. Then HjH he discovers that poultry-raisers have BBJ had all kinds of experiences with that HHJ thing they call moUture. Atter a year IHH or two, the hnateur dlscovera that HHJ thoro are mysteries connected' with HJ Incubation, and lib gets ready to In- HH vostlgate In earnest. -.HJ |