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Toe SOUTHERN WORLD, JULY 15,1884.
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Growing Crops.
Crops near Union Springs, Ala., are
promising.
Crops near Farmville, La., are healthy
and promising
Inquiry Department
perature as possible is maintained (or the egg intrusted to its charge. Where
fifteen days and then the baskets are re* the circulation is defective, some parts
| moved to shelves, the amount of heat of the egg chamber gets too hot and
then contained in the shells being con- others too cold, and so the eggs must,
Sowing oats After Oats.
Editor Southern World—I have 1 8 *dered as sutllcient to complete the I perforce, be frequently shifted about to
Crops are growing finely in the vicin- 801116 k? ttom land which was planted in hatching. the detriment of the embryo, and the
ity of Dewitt, Ark. oatfl year and I expect to plant it in It is a crude method and the result annoyance of the operator.
Claude Hammond, of Beech Island, ^ ainDext ^ Itis 80 8ituated corresponds. With the “Perfect Hatcher" this
C. has 150 acres in melons. mat 1 cannot pasture it, which will give Coming down to modern times, Italy, never happens; it is simply impossible.
* ’ , , . * the grass and weeds a good chance to P rance > England—all have tried their The hot water, after circulating through
ie amage w ea an oat crops grow on it. When will be the best time hand at *he invention of egg-hatching tubes, passes downward through pipes
proves to be not bo great as reported. to plow under the grass and weeds so as machines, which should be all that could »t the back end, and then through a gang
Willie Ambrose, of Waldo, Fla., will to be of the most benefit to the next b® desired; for, you see, this is one of of pipes located about a foot beiow the
make fifty bushels of corn per acre, year’s crop? If this land is well plowed Ub® niany things in which there can be tank, back again to the boiler, thus corn-
average yield. this fall, will oats do as well harrowed no half-way—a chicken cannot be half- pleting the circuit.
In the vicinity of Hopkinsville, Ky., in January or will it be better to plow I hutched—it must be all right or all On these lower hot water pipes, open
the wheat yield was larger than antici- them in? Sasi. wrong. pans of water are placed directly under
pated and the quality superior to that China Grove, Ala. It seemed to 1m nothing but “ all the egg drawers, the water under them
of last year. Answer.-Tuto over the land in Sep- wrong ” for y® arfl “P° n y«ars, hot at becoming heated just enough to cause a
In Bartow county, G»., corn uul cot- 1 ™ 1 *'' or October plowinj just ^p '-lAna'lca stepped Into the tl.ld of in- aulBdent evaporation to overcome the
ton look. well. A large number of m °"«*‘ to caue. the .lice to turn well cub,u< "‘’ “ J "’I’ 8 *'* 1 l ''* t ,“ d th * J* •» th.
threshers were .hipped to this count, »" d coyer the vegetation. You Themotatur. 1.continu-
the present season. possibly get a good stand ol oat. from tl,ore 1 *» , ‘ ,0 “ 1 " 1 ou '' * n<1 , lh », °< 1™*
J. 0. Keys, Anderson. S. C. ( will make fle 'j* Bown seed—which M m.Um« ~h“r '°” 8
l, 000 bushels of barley, 3,000 bushels ol fp’^e^ts in < Januiwv < and then harrow- 1 “>—th. „ue.UonoI the sue- pliml to the eggi Iron, above, b, th.
oats and 2,000 bushels of wheat this I. freouentlJth« omb that t™ I ceH8 * u * hatching of cltickenH l*y artificial I hen’s tiody, and thosame warmth draws
season. He makes cotton as a surplusL t S elabor ^ 8to ^ don glanU means; knowing this beautiful piece of moisture upward from the ground on
P * for oatB-a crop that will respond as mechan,am * personally, as we do, and which her nest is always placed in a
Arthur Marcum, of Columbia county, gratefully for good preparation and j er . 118 we wish all the people of our genial state of nature, so the” Perfect Hatcher”
u .min meirs. u — — I I P 1 South to know it, we do not see how it applies heat from above and moisture
is possible for any further advance in thia from below; even the supply of moist-
scienco to be made, for perfection can nfe is subject to regulation as well as
not be surpassed, and apparently that the amount of heat,
point has been reached by this one incu- During the first week the eggs require
bator, and by this one only. less moisture than they do the second,
And now let us see how it is made, because there is a certain amount of
Fl.„ wi'l make com enough on one tiliMtion „ My thaUhe , armer grow ,
plantation this year to run two planta
tions of a larger size. He is the largest
owner of cattle and stock in the county,
and has never bought a bushel of corn
or a pound of bacon.
K.
Flsli and Flab Fonda.
Editor Southern World—Will some
Cullen Murphy, of Washington county, I °*/ our man y coadetB give through yonr
Ga., has planted for eleven years in co ‘ umn8 best P* an °I constructing a and how it docs its work : Wood, paper, moisture in the egg that must be grade
succession five acres in wheat averag- fi8 . h P ond > th ® best variety oI fi sli I galvanized iron, iron gas pipe, copper, ally evaporated, else the chicks would
ing each year over 100 bushels. After rai8e ia tllls cl * mate > bow 40 cultivate brass, glass, silver, rubber, steel—all be drowned in the shell, so the moisture
harvesting the wheat he plants the field r em ’ etc? Should a pond be cleared of these go to make up its component parts, in.the egg chamlmr is placed under con-
in peas, and after they are gathered or stum P 8 and rubbish? J. B. Aitch. and all are of the best quality, as the trol by movable covers on the pans;
fed to stock in the fall, some fifteen or cli f ton > Ala - workmanship employed in making them during the first week one third of the
twenty bushels of cotton seed per acre Invitation.—Let some reader of the up into the one grand whole, which is surface is left uncovered, two thirds the
are sowed on the land and then seed and World who has made a decided success | rightly termed the “ Perfect Hatcher.” j next week, and the whole surface there-
vines are plowed under, after which I * n P°nd fish culture answer the above
wheat is again sowed. This is all the I
fertilizing given to the land, from which
two valuable crops are annually made. [
Gathered Crops.
The yield of wheat in Tennesse is es
timated at 10,000,000 bushels.
L. L. Jarrard, of Fair Play, S. C.,
threshed 110)y bushels of wheat from
two acres.
The Poultry Yard.
Borne incubators have lion frames, I after.
R. | but these are very objectionable; iron The mode of regulating the heat sup-
is the best conductor of heat or cold in ply is simply beautiful in its simplicity
the world, and where a hatcher has a and perfection. Of course a lamp, fed
a case of this metal, the mere opening I by kerosene (and the latter should be of
and shutting of an outside door, and the the best quality) is the source of this
consequent momentary entrance of cold supply.
air will cause the thermometer in the A competent, self-acting regulator that
egg chamber to drop several degrees; could be fully relied upon has for years
consequently the makers caution pur- upon years been sought for by the in-
The subject of the artificial hatching I chasers to keep their machines in rooms ventors of incubators, but has never
Written specially for the Southern World, i
leial Hatching.
BY ’ ’RN UARCOURT.
been found until now, as applied to the
Perfect llatcher.”
It is a delicate little instrument termed
a thermostat, so sensitive that every
vibration of heat streets it, and causes
instant and positive action, checking at
and three pecks.
Pink Rutledge, of Davie county, N.
C., realized $1,000 from seven acres in
tobacco, and John Sain realized $311
from one acre in the weed.
of chickens for market is one that is just of uniform temperature. Another ob-
Captain Walter Paine, of Milledge-1 now agitating the “ poultry world ” and jection to the iron case is that it rusts,
ville, raised seven bushels of wheat on I shaking it to its foundations; a fowl and in a very few years is destroyed,
one-tenth of an acre. I earthquake is heaving up the soil of our while wood, if painted, will last fifty J
Mrs. Kizzie Cape, of Belton, Ga., poultry yards, and the erratic, unreli- years,
sowed five gallons of wheat on one-third able fleshed hen seems likely to be over- The , .
of an acre of land and made 17 bushels | whelmed in the great tidal wave that for these reasons, is made of wood, I once the slightest advance or decline of
bears the steady, faithful “hen of wood” thoroughly kiln-dried, and combined heat.
upon its crest. with paper and “ dead air ” space of one Electricity is the motive power of this
It is no new thing, in one sense of the inch, wdich so well protects the whole wonderful little regulator, which opei*
word; the idea in a crude state, is not machine, that it offers a perfect resist- ates directly upon a clock movement,
less than twenty-four hundred years old. I ance to outside heat or cold, so com-J the latter acting at once upon the flame
Herodotus refers to the egg-hatching plete is its non-conducting power, that oI tl,e la “P» which it turns up or down
Geo. Bullock, of Marion county, Ga., I oyeng of Egypt nearly four hundred the hatcher may be placed in a room as occasion may require, and at the same
harvested 100 bushels of oats from one yeftrB Christ. They were built where the temperature averages 50 deg., time opens or shuts the ventilator as re*
and one-eighth acres of land. The oats un( j er g r0U nd to secure an equal tem- and after the machine is regulated, the quired.
were sown in February. The same land p era t ure| w ith a passage way running temperature may fall to zero or rise to This is the only electrically regulated
is now planted in cotton and Mr. Bullock t j ir0U gt 1 the center, into which the furn- ninety degrees, yet in the egg chamber machine that has two circuits. The ob*
expect, it to make one bale. Le door, opened. ' the heat will be perfectly equable, prov- u
Two farmers of Union Springs, Ala., I Little is known as to the details of the * n 8 be superior to the buffets ever y two or three weeks and may give
made this year on 100 acres of land, 2,- mana g e ment of these great ovens further of the outside world.” out unexpectedly at any time and thus
600 bushels of oats, for which they have than ^ t he operators had evidently | There is no other hatcher of which jjjjjg* ^ ruinecl* W “ 0 '
been offered 50c. a bushel. The cost, in- fathomed two great principles of the this is true. Then the application of Kow the batteries of the “Perfect
eluding everything, was $450, hence they Etching of eggs—the application of the heat to tue egg is obtained by hot water Hatcher” are so arranged as to husband
will clear $800, or $8 an acre; and this heat f rom a bove, as given by the mother in a galvanized iron tank, the heat being their power and will last two years,
on rented ground. 0 f fl e8 h and blood, and the necessity of deflected to the top of the egg, in close w xhe^ventKSm, » Sort important
W. A. Burdett, of Washington, Ga., moisture. I imitation of the hen’s method; hot air, poim, complete and thorough. The
brought in a fine load of about 1,400 Itwaaan important branch of industry as every one knows or ought to know, faithful opens the top
pounds of red clover hay and sold it at - n Egypt even j n those early days, and is injurious to annua as we as p ant JJ® £ egh air U(1 ( orcing
80cents per hundred. It beats Western it i 8 yet more so now. Great as is the hfe; we never n green-io ses mate I through the lower ventilators (which are
hay by all odds, and is pure clover. But boB j ne88 0 f poultry raising in France at by dry, hot air, it is always hot water a i wayB open) Jie foul carbonic acid.
pounds.
M. L. Harnett, proprietor of the Har
nett House of Savannah, is a Vice-Pres
ident of the Hotel Men’s Mutual Benefit
Association. If he makes as
ovens^Ind Mventy milhon chickViVthe I lion, it is banished, and hot water takes I
’ ita P lace *
* The 8 Chinew, too, are extensive arti- The tank is so arranged that there is j
firiaThatcher of eggs; and with them|a perfect circulation of the water, in-
Benefit I IhToractice probably ante-dates that of I soring a uniform temperature in all the ^ chambw u 0 ne that is possessed by
8°^ a vIISl They employ no ovens, but, in* comers, sides, edges and center, and no other inci bator i H allows the main*
*—• - — “^SS
uverVflre'plK., whare aa aval, a ab*.lawl, nTO«w)r to Ik. wellare ol
selecting him.
l>o you see what thia means?
<TO Ba CVNTINUBD.)
apartments with a low ceiling, the air
is more easily vitiated than in one with
a high ceiling; thia ia an important
feature.
But still another advanUge ol the deep
Footprints—explanatory notes.