The largest incubator ever operated in Orange county will be the one which Melvin Lloyd, son of P.C. Lloyd, has just ordered. It is being built in Lancaster, Pa., according to specifications, and will be delivered to the Lloyd home, out at Sunnyside, west of Chapel Hill, in time to begin hatching next fall.
This new incubator will have a capacity of 3,000 eggs, which means that it can turn out 3,000 chicks every three weeks, or 50,000 a year. Instead of 3,000 being put in the incubator at one time, the eggs will be placed in thirds, so that 1,000 eggs a week will be hatched.
Lloyd is a student in the high school and has been one of the most active young men in this section in carrying out modern farming ideas as he learns them from experts.
In order to be able to operate the new incubator successfully, he is going to Siler City to stay two or three months with an expert poultryman who has incubators of a total capacity of 12,000 and who hatched chicks for sale over a wide territory. Young Lloyd will work with him and will learn the ins and outs of incubator-hatching.
The idea is to have what is known as a “custom hatchery” on the Lloyd farm. That is, anybody who wants eggs hatched may bring them there and have the job done at a stated price per egg. Such establishments are operated with success in sections of the country where the poultry business is conducted on a large scale.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, May 22, 1924
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