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Scientific American, Vol. 38, No. 19 (May 1878) (1878)

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, great uncertainty as to the number of young birds would lay in confinement, he began his experiments in arti- progeny, who can by no means walk about and get his living which will be produced; and much danger as to the fate of in his earliest days. The little chickens in our farmyards ficial… … Fig. l.-HEATHERTON TOWERS, NEAR GRAHAMSTOWN. of which has become renowned. By its means he has in- "The incubator is a low, ugly piece of deal furniture, stand- mother's wings, and we as yet hardly know all the assistance creased the eleven birds to 900, and these and others, becom- which is thus…

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