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Chicken Manufactory

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
May
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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-The N. Ymne, eays: Noture is getting superfltious. We rather hink she wil! soon be voled out of fashion and isoensod witb. Tlierc is a chap just over ur publicatiou office hatching1 chickens in a g box, fifty a day, havin a thousand cggs fways áo'ing. The trouble attending them ight, the heat cosls very little, ond the liickens crack their several sheUs and walk p to thoir döugh and water like wood-chopers to dinner or snitors to their grog; They re clean, Btrong and lively, grow fas% and areíy die, (not being draggled throuph the rass:) and whoever has a hatching mnchine an have 'Spring Chickens' every wsek in ihe ear, and at smal! expense. If wecould ony invent a machina to lay eggs now, hens would be done witli.Tl) ere ís a machine in operation in Tilsbütgh, which m&ke wrouglit iron spike-5, of ny size, wifh great despafch. The machine fed by one or two hands, ns the case may )e, with red hot rods ofiron, of size of the )iks required, and theway it chews np the íot metal aud spits out the hot spikes is no vays elow! The hend is formed by one novement ofa die, wliilst a pair of- we don'l cuowwhat they arecalled - ch'sch, vve.presme, point the spike, which drops csanotheT s introduced, the'size faeing easüy changed by neans of regulating screws, in a few minute?. s the owner may desire, to any required tngth or thicknesö.

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