POULTRY KEEPING 233 



are invaluable for early rearing; illustrations 

 given on pp. 229, 231, show the outdoor 

 brooder both open and closed. This one 

 with the improved lamp answers splendidly, as 

 the chicks have the warm chamber at night ; 

 a second one which should be carpeted 

 with fresh cut turf (from which the chicks 

 can pick up much entrancing diet), and a 

 third which is cold but yet protected from 

 the weather, although they can get out to 

 the runs through the little door, when such 

 a course is desirable. 



Considering poultry keeping as a whole, it Poultry 

 should be a profitable branch when taken be made 

 with other work on a small holding, but to p 

 make it pay really satisfactorily, it requires 

 an immense amount of care, hard work and 

 perseverance, because no matter what the 

 weather may be, out the poultry keeper must 

 go to tend her birds so many times every day, 

 from the hot meal in the early morning to 

 the shutting up the last thing at night. On 

 the other hand, it is an extremely interesting 



