Show hens lose their job modern methods of hatching chicks are generally use used in wisconsin as shown by a survey recently made by th the department of agriculture and markets only 23 per cent of the chicks are now hatched by hens nineteen per cent are hatched to in home incubators and 8 per cent are custom hatched batched by commercial hatcheries thus the survey shows 50 per cent of all chicks are produced by the hatcher les lea nod and that artificial incubation Is increasing each year there are hatcheries in wisconsin with a total capacity of eggs there are birds on the forms of the state about being hens and pullets |