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Show Chinese Way of Hatching Chicks. I THE Chinese method of hatching oa H many as COO duck and chicken eggs WM In ono sitting ha not yt been adopted In this country. Unhusked rice Is used for the pur- WM ro5e, and when this has beon-roasted. It la 11 either cooled by a fanning process or the 11 wind io allowed to blow through 1 1 until 11 It Is lukowarm. 11 Th breeder thon sprinkler a, three inch tM layer of rice In the bottom of a. wooden H tub, and on thin urfaco placets about a H hundred1 kkb', another layor of riceabout H two lnchss thick Is sproad ovcrUiem. and on this layer eggs are also placed, and tho H tub Is filled in this way until thero aro six layers of rlco and fle of eggs mak- lng COO cg;rs in alL In tho tub, jH Every twenty-four hou rs the. rtoo has to H be heated, and for this purpoao tho eggu have to bo removed, tho bottorn layor 11 this time being placed on top, and tho 11 othisr layers ono row lower down, tho IH gn that occupied tho central position WM In tho tub now bedng placed at the edges. 11 There is omo dlffloulty In ganging tho 11 xact time oA which tho eggs will hatch. fH and unless car 1b tokn somo of th 11 young ones are lBcoly to bt smothered. 11 This 1, of coursa, tho polntat whiclv-tho 11 abUtty of-tho 3cp-tlKshown. IH |