Show USE incubators ONLY real function of hen usurped by modern machine artificial incubation only kind in use by big commercial plants and sideline man really should employ one dy by C S ANDERSON colorado agricultural collese college fort collins colo modern hatching of eggs Is exclusively an incubator proposition there are no large commercial poultry plants or specialized poultry men conducting businesses of tiny consequence that are not nor using artificial incubation the number of sideline side line poultry luell iuen and farmers buying incubators Is rapidly increasing cre abing in fact it is a question whether even tile the city poultry man with a 1 few lions liens in ills his back yard can afford to be without one to meet his need there is tile small electric heated 50 egg capacity machine successfully operated in most any room in tho the house or even on tile the back porch going to the other extreme the mammoth commercial hatchery machine of to ogg egg capacity Is not uncommon between these two tavo extremes I 1 is tile to egg machine the kind hind best suited to tile needs of the farmer poul try man the initial cost of a iel fellable lable machine of tills size will vary between 5 and 10 cents per egg capacity to operate a agg incubator for three weeks will cost approximately 75 15 conta chilt for gas oil or electricity and ought not to require more than ten minutes a day for attention this represents the ilie work of 20 liens hens for throe three weeks arid and at least hall half that many liens hens for adix a six weeks brooding period if these liens were till all kept tit at work during tills time they would lay iny at least I 1 e ast 1st e gg 3 valued at only 15 cents per doen aliese Cs eess would amount to between 0 and 7 and if sold for hatching hatch lne could easily bring 50 |