Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — LOCATING THE INCUBATOR. [ARTICLE]

LOCATING THE INCUBATOR.

Room in Which There Is No Stove Is the Best Place. With a standard make of machine, the location dees not matter materially. The farmer cannot afford to have a specially constructed incubator celTar7lsbr Is this necessary for one or two machines. Few farmers operate more than one or two machines at the most and with this small number as g<*od results can be obtained in the dwelling house as any place, providing the farmer has room there for them wTiich he usually has. We never liked the idea of having an incubator in a sleeping apartment, however, says the Epitomist, for the fumes and gases from the lamp as well as from the machine Itself, are anything but healthful. A room in which there is no stove In operation makes a better incubator room than one that is heated, on account of the air being purer as a rule. A cellar makes an ideal location providing it is dry and well ventilated, but a musty cellar is a very poor place indeed for successful incubation.