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folds of flannels or woolen cloth for the chicks to nestle 

 among. This is shown in the illustration. A glazed 

 cover is put over the front of the brooder where the 

 chicks are fed. Newly hatched chicks do not want 

 feeding for twenty-four hours or more, but they will 

 drink some water (or, better, milk) eagerly, and this 

 should be supplied to them in a shallow plate. If one 

 is taken in the hand and its beak is dipped in the water, 



Kg. 44. 



it learns to drink at once. Crumbs of corn bread or 

 cracked wheat are good food for such young chicks 

 while they are in the brooder. It will interest some 

 persons to know that in some hospitals in Paris similar 

 warm brooders have been used for weakly infants for 

 many years, and the writer saw them there thirty years 

 ago, used in almost precisely the same manner as is here 

 described for the previously mentioned brooder for 

 chicks (Fig. 43). 



