The art of hatching and bringing up domestic fowls, by means of artificial heat / Being an abstract of Monsieur de Reäumur's curious work upon that subject, communicated to the Royal Society ... By Mr. Trembley, F.R.S. Translated from the French.

  • Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, 1683-1757.
Date:
1750
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Credit: The art of hatching and bringing up domestic fowls, by means of artificial heat / Being an abstract of Monsieur de Reäumur's curious work upon that subject, communicated to the Royal Society ... By Mr. Trembley, F.R.S. Translated from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bitants of one fingle village, and thofe that live at a fmall diftance from it, about twenty leagues from Cairo in the Delta, which village is called Bermh The Bermeans inftrudt their children in this art, and carefully conceal it from Grangers $ towards the beginning of au-* tumn they fcatter themfelves all over the coum» try, where each perfon among them is ready to undertake the management of an oven. Mr, de Reaumur gives an exadt defcription of thefe ovens, which are of very different fizes, but in general capable of containing from forty to fourfcore thoufand eggs* The number of thefe ovens is about three hundred and eighty fix, up and down the country, as is colledted from the tax that every Bermean is obliged to pay to the Aga of the place, for leave to fet up an oven: and they ufually keep their ovens working for about fix months. As therefore each brood takes up in an oven as under a hen, only one and twenty days, it will be eafy in the fix months to hatch in every oven eight different broods, and thus the three hundred and eighty fix ovens will give yearly, three thoufand and eighty eight broods of chickens. Every Bermean is only under the obligation of delivering to the perfon that fhall have entrufted him With an oven, two thirds of fo many chickens as there fhall have been eggs put under his care, and hs B a i*