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Show EGGS FROM GOOD STOCK ARE REQUIRED For Hatching, Eggs Must be Selected With Great Care Successful incubation depends first; upon securing eggs frim strong vigorous vigor-ous stock, well matted, housed, and led under conditions that make for health and vigor ; second upon the conditions con-ditions under which the eggs are held and upon their age, and finally on the incubation according to Professor Byron By-ron Alder, Poultry Husbandman of fne Utah Agricultural College, Logan, Utah. The breeding stock should not be overfed. Free range conditions are best. If kept in closed runs a varied supply of grains and animal fnod (milk, meat scraps, insects, etc.) should be given with green food, grit, and fresh water always available to the fowls. Th9 house should be kept clean, dry, and free from mites and other pests. All weak or inferior I fowls should be culled out of the breeding breed-ing pens. During cold weather Hie eggs should Lo gathered twice daily and kept in a place where they will not be chilled cr overheated, preferably at a temperature temper-ature between 50 degrees and G5 degrees de-grees F. The eggs should not be stored in a damp mouldy cellar or around decaying fruit or vegetables.' Use only y.od sized eggs of uniform shape and color. Small, long, abnormal or poorly poor-ly shaped eggs should be discarded. The hat liability of the eggs deteriorates deterior-ates very rapidly after they are 10 to 12 days old. Do not try tu hutch brown shelled and white shelled eggs in the same incubalor as tho former usually take a little longer to hatch. Never hatch fresh eggs to a lot that lias started to incubate. Strong vigorous vig-orous chicks cannot be 'hatched tokens to-kens or incubators from weak germ's or from eggs that are old or have not had the proper care. , |