The forerunner to Jamesway, The James Manufacturing Co., of Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin, in the USA, was a manufacturer of livestock equipment in the early 1900 s. One of the first James incubators was available for sale in 1912. Incubators, however, were a secondary product line to the poultry, swine and cattle drinking and feeding equipment made by the company. By 1956, when the James Manufacturing Co.