sold, this work being in charge of the women of the family. It was in the extreme rear of the home that thirty incubators were installed, all doing duty and each having a capacity of 1,200 hens' eggs. Four of these may be seen in the illustration and one of the baskets which, when two-thirds filled with eggs, is set inside of each incubator.
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Fig. 96.—Four Chinese incubators in a room where there are thirty, each having a capacity of 1,200 hens' eggs.
Each incubator consists of a large earthenware jar having
a door cut in one side through which live charcoal may
be introduced and the fire partly smothered under a layer
of ashes, this serving as the source of heat. The jar is
thoroughly insulated, cased in basketwork and provided
with a cover, as seen in the illustration. Inside the outer
jar rests a second of nearly the same size, as one teacup
may in another. Into this is lowered the large basket with
its 600 hens' eggs, 400 ducks' eggs or 175 geese' eggs, as
the case may be. Thirty of these incubators were arranged
in two parallel rows of fifteen each. Immediately above
each row, and utilizing the warmth of the air rising from
them, was a continuous line of finishing hatchers and brooders
in the form of woven shallow trays with sides warmly
