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hover, provides the chickens with a large area where they may find the 

 difl^erent degrees of heat best suited to their needs without going into 

 the colder air of the house proper. (Plates I, III, Fig. 63.) This hover 

 is made with table oilcloth curtains on all sides so as to provide the 

 largest possible amount of curtain area open to the air of the house at all 





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points. A chicken may be trusted to be its own thermometer if given an 

 opportunity to go to or to get away from the heat. 



13. Saves about three-fourths of the labor. 



It requires nearly four times as much labor to feed, handle and heat 

 four flocks of 50 chickens each in small brooders as it does one flock of 

 200 in a large colony brooder house. The time and labor saved in heat- 

 ing one gasoline heated colony house containing 200 chickens compared 

 to heating four brooders containing 50 chickens each, is even greater than 



