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struction. Then, too, some parts of the appliance 

 may require renewal, and if the brooder is easy 

 of construction the farmer or poultryman may 

 readily perform the labor which otherwise would 

 require an additional expense in sending the ma- 

 chine to the factory for repairs. 



The amateur should bear in mind that it is 

 necessary for each person to learn the business for 

 himself by study and experience, that there are no 

 hard and fast rules for the selection and operation 

 of the various kinds of brooders. One person 

 may succeed well with a brooder that would prove 

 unsatisfactory in the hands of another. One per- 

 son may learn how best to operate a particular 

 machine, and, from his study of the condition 

 of the brooder and chickens, soon learn how to 

 remedy the most serious difficulties, whereas 

 another, through a lack of sufficient knowledge 

 of that particular brooder, would fail to secure 

 the essentials in rearing young fowls. There are 

 many brooders that are capable of producing good 

 results if the proper attention be given them; 

 but the manner of caring for the young, which 

 find in them a home, is of greater relative impor- 

 tance than the particular construction of the ma- 

 chine. 



Home-made brooders. It is often desirable and 

 sometimes necessary to construct at home a con- 

 siderable portion of the appliances used in the 



