Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — ELECTRIC INCUBATOR IS BIG [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ELECTRIC INCUBATOR IS BIG

Machine Built for New Orleans Poultry Raiser Has Capacity of 6,000 Eggs—How Worked. One of the largest electric Incubators in use anywhere in the world was built for a poultry raiser in New Orleans. It is 40 feet long by 5 feet wide, and contains 40 compartments, each having a capacity of 150 eggs, says the Popular Mechanics. Each compartment can be separately con-

trolled, so that any one, or all of the compartments, can be operated, according to the number of eggs to be hatched. The controlling thermostats used do not completely break the heater circuit, but introduce the comparatively high resistance of a small electric lamp when open, thus avoiding sparking at the contacts.

Incubator of 6,000 Capacity.