But he is only a poor student and it looks now as if he might grow up to be nothing but a manufacturer of incubators to raise chickens.
I'll set up my incubators here at Burrton and raise chickens enough to bury me decently.
The incubators are built in remote fastnesses, where there is little or no likelihood of their being discovered by other tribes.
These are then placed in the almost air-tight incubators to be hatched by the sun's rays after a period of another five years.
Why they did not arrange to build their vaults andincubators nearer home has always been a mystery to me, and, like many other Martian mysteries, unsolved and unsolvable by earthly reasoning and customs.
II It must be said, to the credit of incubators and science, that Marjorie was a beautifully normal baby.
It tells all about how to feed and manager, how to breed and select, incubators and brooders, its labor-saving devices, etc.
Many insurance companies object to incubators being run in buildings covered by their policies, and will often cancel them.
Of course that difference does not exist in warm weather, but that is the time when incubators are usually let alone and the business is given up to the old hen.
Many of the manufacturers of incubators know very little about the first principles of artificial incubation.
In the absence of a sufficient number of incubators utilise the water-bath employed in testing the thermal death-point of vegetative forms.
Incubate in a series of incubators in which the temperature is regulated at intervals of 1° C.
Control these results--if considered necessary arranging the series of incubators to include each degree centigrade for five degrees beyond each of the extremes previously noted.
Arrange a series of incubatorsat fixed temperatures, varying 5° C.
Two incubators at least are required in the laboratory, for the cultivation of bacteria the one regulated to maintain a temperature of 37°C.
And the incinerators led to the operating and delivery chambers, and the delivery chambers led to the laboratory and the laboratory led to the incubators and the incubators led to the nightmare.
How eagerly would I have bribed the custodian of the incubators for just one peep at the little rough-coated baby ostriches, if I had known what numbers of these comical wee things were in future to be my carefully-tended nurslings!
He was stealing them right out of the incubators before an inspector ever saw them.
He passed it on to the incubators to get a credit, knowing it wouldn't be caught until after birth.
It was in the extreme rear of the home that thirty incubatorswere installed, all doing duty and each having a capacity of 1,200 hens' eggs.
Thirty of these incubators were arranged in two parallel rows of fifteen each.
At this season of the year Chinese incubators were being run to their full capacity and it was our good fortune to visit one of these, escorted by Rev.
There are many objections toincubators which we can learn only from practical experience.
The sure way to hatch chickens is with a broody hen, but at the same time incubators are perfectly satisfactory if run in a room where the temperature does not vary much (a cellar is the best place).
Hen-hatched chicks are usually more subject to lice than those hatched In incubators and raised in brooders, as they become infected from the mother.
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 incubators will be here in good time, and we want everything ready for work as soon as the eggs arrive.
In the intervals of attendance on the incubators he was hard at work on the brooder-house, which must be ready for its first occupants by the 25th.
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.
A little before 1890, artificial incubators being then first brought to a perfection which made them popular, some poultry keepers began to hatch chickens in the winter to meet the demand for early broilers.
Although incubators and brooders have been brought to a relatively high state of efficiency, they are far from perfect.
On Long Island, where most of the duck farms were located, the farmers were hard to convince of the superiority of incubators for their work.
Operating incubators is a business continued in the same families for centuries.
About 1890 appeared the first incubators with automatic regulators that really worked so that the ordinary person could manage the machines successfully.
When broody hens are hard to get, people think that hatching with incubators will relieve them of trouble and prevent delay, but the incubator, too, has its uncertainties.
Several incubators had been invented, which hatched very well for those who had the skill to operate them, but which, in the hands of unskilled operators, spoiled most of the eggs placed in them.
Practical incubators were not produced until about forty years ago.
Why tell him that the woods were full of incubators in America?
The Thaw trial was a matter of moment to the good old man, with his incubators and his steam saw and his absence of personal vanity.
An investment is required both in incubators and in a cellar in which to operate them.
Incubators are used exclusively for hatching the eggs.
This may take the form of a cellar, or the incubators may be operated in rooms above the ground.
Both the smaller kerosene lamp heated incubators and the large or mammoth hot water heated incubators are used for hatching duck eggs.
All goose eggs whether in incubators or under hens or geese should be tested once during the hatch.
The particular size and shape of the cellar or incubator room will, of course, depend upon the number of incubators to be installed and upon their make and shape.
It, therefore, becomes necessary to resort to incubators for the purpose of hatching the eggs.
It is necessary to provide some room in which the incubatorscan be installed and operated.
While it is more difficult to hatch goose eggs inincubators than it is hen or duck eggs, this can be done by an experienced operator with a fair degree of success.
Incubators may also be used but do not as a rule seem to give as good results as they do with hen or duck eggs.
She also noticed rows of steel containers that seemed to be ovens or incubators of some kind as well as racks and racks of vials.
Through the transparent walls she could see the dim glow of CRT screens and incubators filled with petri dishes.
Since then I have made many inquiries, but the Chinese will reveal little beyond the fact that incubators "have always existed" for the hatching of ducks and geese.
Both incubatorsmust have their supper of oil or you know what'll happen.
There are incubators heated with hot water and others with hot air.
Incubators heated by electricity have the heating unit placed either above or below the trays of eggs.
Where incubators are run on top of the ground I have found the results to be poor and to improve, the bigger and deeper and damper and warmer and less ventilated the cellar is made.
In order to learn the facts concerningincubators on the farms the writer made a special investigation on the subject while poultryman at the Kansas Experiment Station.
The best known incubators in the market are the Cyphers, the Model and the Prairie State.
The demand for the incubator of large capacity has, within the last year or so, brought two or three "mammoth" incubators into the market.
The sale of eggs tested out of the incubators has been encouraged by the dissemination of the knowledge that infertile eggs are not changed by incubation.
Hazy tales of Egyptian incubators have gone the rounds of poultry papers these many years.
The general tendency of incubators as ordinarily constructed, is to dry out the eggs too rapidly.
As for the explanation of the results of the Egyptian incubators compared with the American kerosene lamp type, I think it can best be brought about by a consideration in detail of the scientific principles of incubators.
Of these, 6 reported the incubators as being an improvement over hatching with hens; 10 reported the incubator as being successful, but not better than hens, while the remaining 5 declared the incubator to be a failure.
Now, the movement of air in all common incubators depends upon the draft principle and the greater the difference in machine temperature and outside temperature the greater will be this draft.
Incubators kept in a cement basement which has flues in which fires were built to secure "ample ventilation.
A few years ago some one with an investigating mind decided to see if incubators were properly ventilated, and proceeded to make carbon dioxide determinations of the air under a hen and in an incubator.
In order to show this I have only to call attention briefly to two or three of the most successful types of incubators on the market.
These are two principal types of box incubators now in use.
She is probably saying that since the "invention" of incubators chickens are not what they used to be when she was young.
It is well known that incubators were a failure until some one noticed that sitting hens always turn their eggs at regular intervals.
This year the incubators have been loaned to ambitious amateurs, and all the chickens on this farm have been hatched out by nice, motherly old hens.
I'll show you," I exclaimed, running to the incubatorsand beckoning to the Baron to aid me.
In Schroeder's and Christy's incubatorsthe hot-water pipes from the boiler simply entered the warm-water tank but did not traverse it.
The incubators which have been described are of relatively small size, and the numbers of eggs which they can incubate are strictly limited.
Most bacteriologicalincubators are square or rectangular in form, but some bacteriologists prefer cylindrical forms, presumably on account of the ratio of volume to surface in connexion with the water tank.
Among the most recent type of incubators made in England is that of Charles Hearson.
All the incubators so far described have been constructed with the idea of obtaining as nearly as possible a uniform temperature.
Certain special forms of thermo-regulators, adapted to the requirements of the particular incubators to which they are attached, have already been described.
The Westmeria incubators (Leighton Buzzard) are of two patterns.
But in other forms of incubators in which the principle of an external boiler connected with water tubes is adopted, the latter pass not into the egg chamber nor into an air chamber, but open into and from a tank of water.
Hearson's incubators have the reputation of very accurate performance and practically need no attention for months, or even years.
There was a strong show of incubators and an attractive feature of borax.
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