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quality of equipment, and what he calls "elasticity." 

 Some brooders, he rates as not convenient ; some makes 

 are too perishable ; some poorly ventilated ; in some, 

 the labor was found so great as to be prohibitive when 

 large numbers were brooded. Being forced by the 



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necessities of a chain system of egg-producing farms 

 under one management, to find something efficient, 

 economical, and necessitating little work, he tried the 

 fireless type of brooders, under the best advertised 

 methods. His conclusion was, in effect, that the death 

 rate was too great, the economy imaginary, the plan 

 impracticable where time is an element of value and 



