. Artificial incubation and incubators ... ancier who has given it a thorough trial has arrived atthe same conclusion as ourself, that there is no way of raisingchickens so healthful and economically as by means of the Arti-ficial Mother or Brooder. • This will, before many years, be regarded as an indispensableattachment to every poultry yard. With the fancier in a smallway, who can keep only a few hens, it will be popular, because hecan take the chicks from the nest and place them in the mother,and either re-set the hen, or turn her out, and in a week or so haveher laying again. Another adva
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. Artificial incubation and incubators ... ancier who has given it a thorough trial has arrived atthe same conclusion as ourself, that there is no way of raisingchickens so healthful and economically as by means of the Arti-ficial Mother or Brooder. • This will, before many years, be regarded as an indispensableattachment to every poultry yard. With the fancier in a smallway, who can keep only a few hens, it will be popular, because hecan take the chicks from the nest and place them in the mother, and either re-set the hen, or turn her out, and in a week or so haveher laying again. Another advantage is in the saving of coops.The young chicks may be put into the mother as they are hatched, not necessarily together, but at different times and of differentages—one, two or three weeks apart. The large breed- an advantage inand an additionalfeed. Youngdo better on athe fowls. It mayfeed hard boiledday or two, orly expensive food, with the chickensfully one-half ofpared food. Thewill find it of theuse; in one seasonvalue of several. er also will findthis last respect, one in the item ofchicks need, andfiner feed thanbe de;sirable toeggs for the firstsome other equal-Where the hen isshe usually eatsthis specially pre-breeder of Gamesgreatest possiblehe would gain themothers in the saving of many of his young chicks from being picked to deathby savage hens with broods of their own. How often many of ushave felt like wringing the neck of some cross biddy upon findingher savagely picking (perhaps for the tenth time or more) the headoff of some unfortunate chick, belonging to another brood, whichhad strayed into her coop! Cleanliness is another very important consideration. One henwill soil the coop more in one day than fifty chicks in a week, andthe droppings of the former always carries with it more or lesswaste of food. Quick growth is desirable in all breeds, and nothing promotes itso much as warmth and freedom from vermin. The absence ofthe hen secures the freedom from li