Show what Is the incubators cuba tors age T the hens of palestine and egypt hae lost the habit of sitting on theu their eggs and no longer know knon how hou to cart r out their maternal duties miss mis philli brown a vaar bastar mairu ate mho is teaching poultry aari rari air and dair dairying ing to children in one of the near east agricultural schools q for refugee orphans in bible lands in a report just received at the organizations headquarters here miss mis brown sa lais s probable man americans thinly of the incubator as a modem tion non but it is older than 1 I was vas surprised arp to find luring during recent visits to agricultural ties in egypt and palestine that tr incubator has been in use so lonz twist the native hens no longer have hae any aap de ire to sit on their eggs egg thus evo lution is taking its course the native incubators of biec lands are very ery primitive mitie affairs affair and ancl show shon no improvement in years an incubator which aich I 1 secured for forea exhibition hibi tion purposes from an farmer fanner is exactly the same as tho those aich which archeologists archaeologists have hae dug up froam tomb of pharaohs Phara time xo no thermometer mo is used and the peasant tests the temperature b bv feeling the eggs with nith his eclid fi fuel bel ys re renewed need in the native in cebator furnace twice taice daily for elex e dav in man village the of eggs is centralized in a large incubator building containing fi five e or SIA si ovens oens treating to egg each season the proprietor of trie incubator buds the eggs egg from the lagers at a price of one cent bacs and sells the live ine chicks back to thew for and a half cents apiece ete profit is not exorbitant as a these primitive incubators u usually ualle produce onre about 50 percent successful catchings the incubator specialist belongs to a highly rated profession and jealously guards the secrets of his trade miss brown davs that the refugee refuge Lr orphans in the great near east relfe schools show natural proficiency in all departments of agriculture she believes that the elementary scientific instruction chich has been introducer introduce cy in these thee countries bv the american Ameri carr farm schools will result in a largely increased output the orphan cha hildren both bov bo s and girls graduate aft the age of sixteen and more than tham fifty percent of them are placed on the land to earn cam their living ining b bv farm fann ing dairying and poultry raiding |