Show incubators considerable interest ia terest has been excited in the incubators and those interested have been feeling around in the dark as it were in trying to strike some method by which chickens could be hatched surely and without trouble this is somewhat like the tile royal road to wealth the royal road to wealth has n not ot been as yet found without en encountering coull some trouble on the road the same is true in regard to hatching I 1 ug chickens even if the most perfect incubator was procured it will be found necessary to attend to it every day and what with turning of eggs and renewing of oil and keep keeping ingall an even temperature the incubators have not made so many friends aa was at first thought they would the best incubator we ever found was the hen lien herself bersel f she has been bred to the business and after she once makes up her mind to go at it she has no other business on hand band the difficulty generally experienced is that two hens or more wish to go into the same business busi liess on the same spot and in their struggle for the L mastery the stock in trade is generally ruined it is to say bay the least annoying after two hens have squandered three weeks to see them bring kofl one chicken between them the question then arises how ilow can you prevent one or more mor e hen ben setting on a nest at a time we remember fifteen years ago or so of seeing a p patent abent nest with a door in front like a triangle which when the ben hen went in onto the nest closed after her preventing others coming in in and still leaving her free to go out but this brilliant device las has not met with tho the success that the patentee thought it would when it was first hatched out people still go out in the old way letting their hens liens sit where they have a mind to and as loin long as they have a mind to some sonic ayears years ago we practiced practised this me method thod our ourselves selve S with the result of only about a dozen chickens being hatched in the entire season although there were more hens liens than that engaged in doing their best at it Bree denv journal for june |