Keep the brooder clean by using sand or earth 

 on floor of brooder and house. Do not use the 

 very fine, dusty kind of sand if you can get any- 

 thing else. 



As soon as the chicks show an inclination to 

 roost get them out of the brooding house and into 

 less expensive houses, if you have them, and make 

 room for others, besides giving them more range. 



BROODING HOUSES. 



A continuous brooding house, divided into 

 rooms, should have a passage way through it, and 

 if thirty feet long, or longer, should have a hot 

 water stove to furnish heat for the brooders, so as 

 to save attention to so many lamps. 



If the house is furnished with single brooders, 

 each room should be five and one-half feet wide 

 and nine feet long the length being parallel with 

 the divisions or dividing fences of yards. If heated 

 by continuous hot water pipes, the rooms should 

 be nine feet wide at right angles with the dividing 

 fences, and five and one-half feet long parallel 

 with dividing fences. The reason for this arrange- 

 ment will be apparent on examining the different 

 brooding apparatus. These rooms will accommo- 

 date from fifty to one hundred chicks, each. 



