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Fig. 66. Brooders of this kind are capable of 

 extension and of providing heat for many hun- 

 dreds of young chickens. The other system is 

 represented fairly well by small portable brood- 

 ers, which supply heat by radiation from hot air 



Fig. 66. Hot water pipe brooders, covers of three lifted, man raising 

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or from hot water tanks. These are usually 

 heated by small oil lamps or by gas jets. The 

 pipe system is most extensively used by poultry- 

 men who rear fowls on a somewhat extensive 

 scale. One fire, producing the heat for many 

 hundred chickens, gives to this system an ad- 

 vantage over the smaller brooders which require 



