Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — Novel Incubator. [ARTICLE]

Novel Incubator.

A woman in Ohio utilized the high temperature of her phthisical husband for eight weeks before his death bv using nim us an incubator for hen's eggs. She t >ok a number of eggs and, wrapping each one in cotton batting, laid them alongside the body of her husband in the bed, ho being unable to resist or move a limb. Fifty was the number of eggs first used as an oxperl ment, and after three weeks she was rewarded with forty-six lively young chickens.