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CYCLOPEDIA OP LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



FIG. 3. 



TANK, SHOWING HOW TO 

 CONSTRUCT IT. 



hetween the top of the tank and wooden floor is half an inch. The cur- 

 tain in front of brooder is simply a piece of cloth cut into strips. The 



smoke holes of the lamp should 

 be at each corner^ but only two 

 cold air holes are necessary, and 

 they should be near the centre of 

 the sides of the brooder. Bear 

 in mind the cold air goes between 

 the tank and the wooden floor, 

 and gets heated. 

 X. How to Make the Brooder, 

 To make this brooder, cut six boards, 1 inch thick, 6 inches wide, and 



3 feet long, tongued andgrooved,so that no air can come through except 



by way of the tube on top, which tube is 1 inch in diameter, and 2^ 



inches high from the floor. These 



boards are your floor. On the 



under side of this floor, at the 



edges, nail strips all around (on 



ends and sides), the strips being I 



inch thick and 1^ inches wide. 



Then set your tank as shown in 



cut. You will then have an air 



space between the floor and tank 



of half an inch. Be sure and cut 



air holes to admit the coid air. 



You may simply have open holes 



The holes need only be a half inch 



FIG. 4. LOWER PART UNDER GROUND. 



or may use tin tubes, if preferred, 

 n diameter. You can now easily fit 



on the lower box, and also make the covering on top, as may be seen by 



the illustration. 



This brooder is an English method, and shows that upward currents of 



warm air have been in use for 

 many years for both hatching and 

 brooding. Figure 1 shows the 

 brooder with lamp and tank above 

 ground. Figure 2 shows a sec- 

 tional view of the same. Figure 

 4 shows the lower part of brooder 

 under ground, with trap door, for 



getting at the lamp. Figure 5 shows the mother, which covers the chicks, 



with adjustable pegs or legs. The tank is from Lewis, the top from 



Rankin, while the mother is from Bell and others. 



FIG. 5. THE MOTHER. 



