INCUBATORS AND BROODERS. 



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FIG. 1. THE BUOODEU IN POSITION. 



up the drawer, after turning. Wet the sponges by dipping in hot water. 

 After the first ten days the animal heat of the chicks will partially assist 

 in keeping the temperature. Be careful, as heat always drops when 

 chicks are taken out. You can have a small glass door in front of egg 

 drawer, to observe thermometer, if desired. Always change position of 

 trays when eggs are turned, putting the front one at the rear. 

 IX. A Cheap Home-made Brojder. 

 We give an illustration of a brooder in use, figure 1, and select it be- 

 cause it is one of the best, being easily made, and at a low cost, and 

 because it has been tried and found to answer all purposes. By refering 



to figure 1 it will be seen that the 

 top is detachable, being lifted off 

 by the handle when desirable. Al- 

 though the lower part of the 

 brooder is above ground, yet, if 

 preferred, it can be sunk in the 

 ground, provided the holes (to 

 admit cold air to brooder, and 

 smoke from lamp to escape) are 

 left above the surface of the 

 ground. Space must be left to 

 admit of getting at the lamp if brooder is in the ground. Eithei a No. 

 2 burner lamp or a small kerosene oil stove may be used for heating the 

 brooder. Be careful to leave air holes at the bottom of the door, or the 

 lamp will smoke. Keep the brooder at a temperature of 90 degrees. 



Figure 2 shows the lamp (or kerosene oil s?tove, if preferred) under a 

 sheet-iron tank. It heats the 

 tank, the smoke of the lamp pass- 

 ing out at four holes, placed at 

 each corner of the brooder, which 

 distributes the heat. The cold 

 air enters around the tank, and 

 is drawn right over it above the 

 lamp, as the cold air rushes in as 

 fast as the warm air rises. The 

 hot air rises through a tube in 

 the floor. It will be seen that 

 the sracke of the lamp does not 



go into the brooder, and that the tube in the brooder extends through 

 the wooden floor only. The brooder is a yard square, but the tank may 

 be smaller; the box containing lamp is ten inches deep, and the space 



SECTIONAL VIEW. 



