Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1918 — USES WELL AS INCUBATOR. [ARTICLE]

USES WELL AS INCUBATOR.

Hot Water Causes Eggs Buried in Sand to Hatch. Beaumont, Cal.—An artesian well of bot water that serves, the double purpose of irrigating his land and hatching hen’s eggs is owned by E. L. Edmunds, living near Oasis in the Coachella Valley. The water hah a temperature of 101 degrees at the well. It irrigated six acres of asparagus, from whicl. Mr. Edmunds made almost daily shipments during December, January and February. Heat to operate an incubator is secured by placing five gallon cans with perforated sides in an irrigation ditch. The cans are partially filled with sand in order to sink them. The eggs are then put in the sand and turned v daily until hatched. As the water is at an even temperature at all times a satis factory hatch record has resulted. ?• t ‘