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regards comparative strength, will look as if they had 

 been drawn through a woodpile backwards, after a few 

 nights of such dissipation, and they will be very sleepy 

 in the daytime. Their keeper, if a novice, will begin 

 now to change their feed, but if somebody punched him 

 with a sharp stick or dragged him out of bed by his 

 heels every time he got fairly to sleep every night last 

 week, his constitution would demand something besides 

 a change from beef and potatoes to mutton and parsnips. 

 But somebody may advise to set the brooder regulator 

 not at 98, but enough lower than that to make allow- 

 ance for the rise after the chicks are in. If the animal 

 heat raises the temperature 12, set your regulator at 90 

 and after awhile it will rise to 102, the chicks will be 

 comfortable then and sleep till morning, he says. This 

 adjustment avoids some of the dangers inseparable from 

 the 98 plan, but involves new ones. The chicks have a 

 longer period of undisturbed rest after they once get to 

 sleep under the 90 plan, but have to undergo a longer 

 contest with the cold at the start. To fight for warmth 

 while the heat is slowly rising 12 results in more severe 

 and protracted chilling than when it is rising only four 

 degrees. Also, there is another trouble. The animal 

 heat is sufficient to run the hover up to 102 at a little 

 after sundown when the evening is comparatively warm, 

 but as morning approaches, the air outdoors lowers 30 

 and that inside the brooder house 15, or if the early 

 evening was still and the wind rises toward morning, 

 the heat inside may fall 20. Now the struggles at the 

 start for the warmest place resulted in a scrt of sifting 

 process, the weaklings got pushed to the outside, and 

 as morning approaches, those least fitted to withstand cold 

 are exposed to it the most. As a mass, they are too 

 cold now, if they were just right at the early part 

 of the night, and if just right now, they were over- 

 heated then. 



