This proved even more interesting than she had anticipated, for since her last visit an incubator had been purchased, and there were hundreds of little chickens of various sizes, in different compartments, to be looked at and admired.
Heat the water in two or more boilers, as a large quantity will be required, and pour it in through the tube on top of the incubator boiling hot, using a funnel in the tube for the purpose.
The incubator should be raised from the floor about an inch, when completed, to allow the air to pass under and thence into the ventilator tubes.
When the front is completed the incubator is seen at Fig.
This incubator will hatch chicks, ducks, turkeys, or guineas, and we see no reason why it should not hatch the egg of the ostrich or anything else as well.
A week’s practice in operating the incubator will surprise one how simple the work is.
Experiments with the incubator here given have been made all over the country.
Here we remove the front of the incubator in order to show the positions of the ventilator, egg drawer, and tank.
The front of the incubator must be packed also, but an idea of how it should be done may be learned by observing the opening in Fig.
The apparatus is now placed in the incubator at the desired temperature, and the contained culture grows under anaërobic conditions.
A pale pink to dull red colour appears almost at once, and may be accentuated by placing the culture in the blood-heat incubator for half an hour.
However thorough the manipulation, there will always be a residue remaining in the ducts, which will, and does, afford a suitable nidus and incubator for organisms.
The circular glass incubator was finally completed, and Bauer had experimented on it to such satisfaction that it was a common joke with the boy that Bauer's electrical chickens were so thick they ate up all the currents in the shop.
It seems that our friend's incubator has begun its sales in fine shape and the first royalties came in to Mr. Bauer a few days ago.
If there was no other way he could probably be prevailed on to take the money as a loan and pay back when his royalties came due on the incubator sales.
Won't it be great if your incubator should make you rich!
And say, Bauer, why not get out a special illustrated Thanksgiving edition incubator made to hatch out nothing but turkeys.
We all hope Mr. Bauer's incubator will continue to head the list of the six best sellers.
But he had finally succeeded in all the preliminary stages, his model was in the patent office, and he had even begun to receive letters from two or three manufacturing firms about putting the incubator on the market.
The sun would never set on your incubator any more than hens have to.
We'll manufacture the incubator ourselves and so get all the profits.
Occasionally--and even at this time and distance it is hardly to be recalled without a shudder--the incubator would contain a bad egg.
Success in artificial hatching requires careful attention to the operation of the incubator and good judgment in adjusting and regulating it.
The incubator cellar will be several times as large as the cellar under the ordinary dwelling house.
When an incubator factory was established at Petaluma, California, the farmers in that vicinity began to use incubators, and some small egg farms grew up in the town.
Incubator cellar] The methods of the roaster growers in this district are very intensive, but as originally developed their business was not a continuous line of intensive poultry culture, nor is it continuous now except in some cases.
The houses and yards for adult stock, the incubatorcellar and the brooder houses, the barns and sheds, and the dwelling of the owner or manager occupy but a very small part of the farm--usually from one to three acres.
The first incubators used there were machines set up on trial by a manufacturer who had invented an incubator which was very easy to operate.
This incubator contains the germs of modern water heaters.
For an incubator baby, Marjorie handled the measles remarkably well.
Marjorie missed the nickel-plated trimmings of her incubator and she longed to see the procession of faces that she had seen so often.
Sitting alone at seven months is not bad progress for an incubator baby and Marjorie was rather proud of it.
She would have given two degrees of temperature and three respirations just to have a fat, greasy East Side washlady beam upon her as in the incubator days.
She was the smallest baby of all those in the long row of incubators; "one pound and eight ounces when born," the placard above her incubator said; but she grew rapidly.
The doctor suggested that perhaps incubator babies were subject to such declines.
During her last days in the incubator Marjorie and her feet became fast friends.
She wanted to be fed when she was hungry, to sleep when she was sleepy, and to be loved and mothered and petted whenever she was not hungry nor sleepy, and whatever a nickel-plated incubator may be able to do, it is not an adept at kissing.
A tall lady came to the incubator in company with the nurse.
She examined the incubator carefully, and asked a great many questions about temperature, the sanitation, alimentation and digestion and other scientific things.
All that day there were tiny Chickens busy in the incubator (that was what the Man called the fat table), working and working and working to get out of their shells.
She never knew that they had been hatched in the incubator from the four eggs which she had laid, but which the Man had thought she could not cover.
A bacteriological incubator is an apparatus for growing bacteria at a constant temperature.
For use with large classes "incubator rooms" are to be preferred.
In the morning he was up and at his incubator before any one else was stirring.
Great was her amazement to find the lamp out, a basin full of broken eggs and little dead chicks, and the incubatoritself deserted and empty.
The children could have watched them much longer with great interest, but mamma was afraid the incubator would get too cool, and she advised August to cover it.
By Grandma's advice they were left in the incubator "to give them a chance," but they never hatched.
August held his breath and looked at them as long as he dared to keep the incubator open.
On the next Monday the eggs, having been in the incubator a week, were far enough advanced to be tested.
There was no school that afternoon, so August cleaned the room, and supplied the incubator with fresh eggs, greatly encouraged by his mother's sympathy and interest.
I will look at your incubator occasionally while you are at school.
While no second test is made of the eggs left in the machines the experiencedincubator operator is constantly on the watch for and is constantly removing any eggs which die at a later time.
Where an incubator is used for hatching the eggs are placed in the machine just as hens' eggs.
After this some incubator men cool the eggs by dropping the doors of the machine.
When the ducklings are first brought from the incubator cellar they are placed in the pens nearest the heater as the temperature will run somewhat higher there than in the portions of the house more remote from the heater.
Practically no eggs are sold except the cracked eggs or those which would not give good results in the incubator such as too large or too small eggs.
During the last week or ten days and in some cases for a longer period than this incubator operators supply moisture daily to the machine.
From the tank, the water must be piped to the incubator cellar, the brooder houses, the killing house, the feed house and to any of the yards where the ducks do not have access to a natural supply of good water.
Such an arrangement serves to give the incubator man a greater incentive to give the machines good attention and to secure just the best results of which he is capable.
The box with handles on top of the hover is used in carrying the newly hatched ducklings from the incubator cellar to the brooder house.
It consists of a table the same width as an incubator tray and longer than the tray.
The incubator cellar should be convenient to the No.
It is advisable to leave the ducklings in the incubator until they are well dried off before removing them to the brooder.
An incubator will accommodate from four-fifths to five-sixths as many duck eggs as it will hens' eggs.
It is quite a common practice on the part of duck farmers to pay their incubator man a bonus on all ducklings over 40% hatched during the season.
To be theincubator of revolution is almost as exciting as to have bull-fights or a suburban battle-field, the treasures for which San Antonio cannot easily forgive her rival, El Paso.
Here then is the very incubator of Mexican revolution.
With this he had shown up promptly at Todd's, and there he had dwelt thenceforth, using a pretty fair portion of the annuity in further incubator experiments.
I purchased an expensive incubatorand brooder--needn't have bought a brooder.
The tubes were placed in an incubator and several kinds of organisms grew, very similar to those which infect wounds in ordinary climates.
So he went back to its incubator and cut off the hormone flow into its compartment.
There were now on hand more than 1300 pullets and hens, and I instructed Sam to run his incubator overtime that season, so as to fill our houses by autumn.
He filled the first incubator on Saturday, January 30, and from that day until late in April he was able to start a fresh machine about every six days.
The mason's work for theincubator house and the foundation wall for the brooder house cost $290.
We have now on the place five of these houses; but only two of them, besides the incubator and the brooder-house, were built in 1896.
I want you to start your incubator lamps before the 3d of February.
With an incubator there is always a temptation to attempt to raise more chickens than we can care for properly.
Before placing any eggs in an incubator it should be run for two days to be sure that the heat regulator is in working order.
If the automatic heat regulator fails to work and the heat in our incubator runs up too high we may have a fire.
The eggs in anincubator must be turned twice a day.
I have made a great many hatches with incubators of different makes and my experience has been that we must watch an incubator almost constantly to have success with it.
The most important objection to an incubator is that it is against the rules of most fire insurance companies to allow it to be operated in any building that the insurance policy covers.
In order to operate an incubator successfully, we shall also need a brooder, which is really an artificial mother.
An incubator holding about a hundred eggs will cost ten or twelve dollars.
It is then placed in an incubator oven and is subjected to a gentle heat.
Closely allied to the dairy appliances are the incubatorand the bee hive, both of which have claimed a large share of attention, and for which many patents have been granted.
It was a week or two after the installation of the incubator that Edith was seized with what Cynthia called "one of her terribly tidy fits.
Jest then a woman sez, "The little Incubator Babies have been forgotten.
We went on and as soon as we got out she asked me if I didn't want to see the Incubator babies, and bein' agreeable to the idee, we went and see 'em.
It so happened that one of his cultures was left forgotten in the incubator when work was stopped for the vacation.
This he deduced from the fact that the microbes in the sealed-up tube had not lost their virulence, while those forgotten in the open bottle in the incubator and exposed to the access of air had done so.
The remarkable circumstance about the culture left in the incubator was that even when it was transferred into a fresh medium and its vitality renewed, it remained still impotent.
Heated air rises--if the incubator is not level, the highest point will get most of the heat.
A thermometer is placed in the incubator to guide the operator in regulating the temperature.
Disinfect the incubatorbetween hatches, and air it well.
The incubator must also permit of suitable ventilation and control of the moisture in the eggs.
The walls of the incubator are usually double so that air can be let in without making a draft.
The box-like body of a good incubator is set on strong legs which raise it to a convenient height.
If not enough weight is lost, open the ventilators, and, if necessary, for the next hatch, place the incubator in a drier place.
Set the incubator level; it is constructed to work on the level.
Violent fluctuations of temperature in the incubator are dangerous and should be avoided.
To know whether the incubator has the proper amount of moisture supplied, weigh the trays before filling, weigh after filling.
Ventilation both regulates the amount of air circulating in the incubator and the amount of moisture.
As soon as the incubator cools below this temperature, the thermostat contracts, letting the damper drop in place to retain the heat and direct it into the incubator.
Adjust the incubator and run it for two or three days to see that it is operating at a constant temperature before putting in the eggs.
Start the incubator with a good, clear, high flame in the lamp, so that it can be turned lower as the germs in the eggs begin to grow and generate heat.
The use of the incubator is extending each year and is now almost universal where any considerable number of chicks are to be hatched.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incubator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: birthplace; brooder; cradle; hotbed; nest; nursery; rookery
