A Mr Hunt has patented an improved incubator or apparatus of simple and inexpensive construction for hatching and also for rearing the young when hatched. The incubator is composed of two boxes placed one within another, a clear space being left at every part between them (say about one inch), which is filled with a non-conductor of heat. The inner box, says the English Mechanic, contains a metal vessel, which is filled with heated liquid (say) every twelve hours, and above this is placed a tray to contain the egge for incubation. The heat is graduated and air is admitted by a perforated lid at the top of the outer box. That part of the invention relating to rearing the young when hatched, which the inventor calls "the mother," is constructed as above described, save that the vessel for the heated liquid is placed at the upper, part of the box, so as to leave a-sufficient space to admit the young to warmth. The liquid is admitted; to and drawn from the apparatus by pipes and cocks suitably arranged for sueh purposes..
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Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 88, 21 November 1872, Page 3
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