Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 93
AN ARTESIAN WELL OF WARM WATER IN WHICH CHICKENS ARE HATCHED. NATURES INCUBATOR On a ranch in a valley of the Colorado desertwe find a new and strange method of hatchingchickens. Many artesian wells are in this valley to fur-nish water for irrigation. They are made bydrilling a hole in the earth,… … THE RECENTLY HATCHED CHICKENS WITHIN THE ROUNDCAN OF GALVANIZED IRON. reached, which then rises to the top and flowsover the edge. One hole was drilled for seven hundred andfifty feet into the earth, and a flow of watercame up with a temperature of one hundred and two degrees. Since chicks will…
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