say, why not have the heat just right, so they will 

 have no occasion to push or crowd? How can 

 you, with that kind of a brooder ? Place a crowd 

 of people under a shed the floor of which is heated, 

 and will not those in the middle be uncomfortably 

 warm if those on the outside edges are just warm 

 enough? Or, if those in the middle are just warm 

 enough, will not the outer ones be cold, particu- 

 larly if the weather is extra warm or extremely 

 cold? It would be the same if the heat came 

 from the top. But let chicks surround either a 

 square or oblong heat reservoir or heater, so 

 arranged that the hover projects only far enough 

 to shelter two or three rows of chicks (only 

 two or three deep from the outer row of flannel 

 drapery to the wall of the heat reservoir), and 

 crowding is impossible ; the inner chicks can get 

 out or the outer ones can get closer in. If a chick 

 is pushed from under the hover, another takes its 

 place, and the ousted chick finds the vacant spot 

 and occupies it. The inner row of chicks are only 

 about six inches from the outside air and do not 

 suffer for want of pure ventilation. 



You can place a hundred men in rows two or 

 four abreast and they will be comfortable, but place 

 them in a square or round room just large enough 

 to hold them, and, no matter whether it be winter 

 or summer, at least one-third of them will be un- 

 comfortable. Is not the argument conclusive? 

 Still we do not give this from theory, but from ex- 

 perience after burying bushels of chicks from 

 both " bottom heat" and ''top heat "brooders. 



