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it: yet I tried this most diligently, and it took no effect, nor can I tell how it shouldbe done. They that commend the Oven, do not teach the manner how it shouldbe done. But what I have done my self, and I have seen others do, I shall brieflyrelate,that with little labour and without Hens,any one may

Hatch Eggs in 4 hot Oven.

Make a vessel of Wood like a Hogshead, let it be round, and the Diameter so longas your arm is, that you thrust in, that you may lay and turn the Eggs, let it be fourfoot in Altitude. This we divide by three boards within into four parts: Let the firstbe a foot and half, the second little above a foot, the third a foot, and the fourthleast of all. Let every concavity divided with boards have a little door thereto, solarge as you may thrust in your arm, and its shut to open and (hut at pleasure. Letthe first and second loft be made of thin boards, or wrought with twigs, let thethird be of brass arched, and the fourth of solid wood. Let the first and secondstage have a hole in the centre three fingers broad, through which must pal's a bra-zen or iron pipe tinned over, that must come half a foot above the second story,and so in the lower most, but in the bottom the orifice must be wider, like a Pyramisor funnel,that it can fitly receive the heat of the flame of a candle put under it j in thesecond story let the pipe be perforated about the top, that the heat breathing forththence, the place may be kept warm, and the Eggs may be hot in the upper part,as they arc under the Hen. Above these three rooms strew saw-dust, which Ithinks is best to cover them : Let the saw-dust be highest about the sides of theHogshead, but less in the middle; in the bottom where the pipe is lower, that theEggs that lye upon it may receive the heat that comes from the pipe every way: Inthe third story where the pipe ends, let it be pressed down about the sides, audbibber inthe middle about the pipe, let a linnen cloth cover the saw-dust, a finecloth, that if ic befoul'dittmy be washt again , and the Chicken hatcht may go up-on it. Lay upon every story a hundred Eggs, more or less, let the great end of theEggs lye downwards, the sharp end upwards. The walls of the Hogshead that areabove the saw-dust within the concavities, and the upper part of the story must becovered with sheep skinfc, that their warmth may keep in the heat: In the lowerconcavity under the Tunnel , must a light lamp be placed, atfiist with two weiks,inthe end with three, in summer? but at beginning of winter, first with three, andlast with four or five: Let the light fall upon the middle of the Tunnel, that thebeat ascending by the pipe , the rooms may heat all alike. - The place where this ves-sel stands must be warm and stand in a by place; in the lower part where the lampis lighted, you must lay no Eggs, For that heat there will not hatch them. Butwhere the Chickens are wet when they are first hatched, shut them in here to drythem by the warm heat of the lamp, marking twice or thrice every day whether theheat abate, be warm or very hot. We fliall knew it thus, take an Egg out ofiheplace, and lay it on your Eye, for that will try it well: if it be too hdrfor you,theheat is great, if you feel it not,it is weak ; a strong heat will hatch them,but a weakwill make them addle. So you must adde or take away from your lamp, to make thelight adequate & proportionablejafter the fourth day that the Eggs begin to be war-med, take them out of the cells, and not fluking them hard, hold them gentlyagainst the Sun beams or light of a candle, and fee whether they be not addle, forif you discern any fibres or bloody matter run about t he fegg, it is good ; but if it beclear and transparent, it is naught, put another Egg in the place of it; All that aregood must be daily turned at the lamp heat, and turn them round as the Hen is wontto do. We need not fear spoiling the Eggs, or if any man do handle them gently ?in summer after nineteen or twenty days, or in winter after tweUty five or twentyeight days, you shall take the Eggs in your hand , and hold them against the Sun,and see how the Chickens beak stands, there break the shell, and by the hole ofthe Egg take the Chicken by the beak and pull out its head ; then lay it in i:s placeagain, for tne Chicken will come forth it self, and when it is come but,put it in thelower cell as I said r But let the lamp stand something from the parement, lest theChickens allured by the light, should pick at it and be burnt by it; And if you dq

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