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fire, producing the heat for many hundred chickens, 

 gives to this system an advantage over the smaller 

 brooders which require a separate lamp for each 

 small flock. Oil lamps require close attention, and 

 even then they are likely to give more or less trouble 



FIG. 72. Hot-water-pipe brooders, covers of three lifted, man raising 

 the fourth New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 



by some imperfection in the burner or deposit 

 of soot or carbon in some parts of the flue, which 

 may lead to overheating and, in some cases,, may 

 produce disastrous results. Brooders, and even 

 poultry houses, have been set on fire by careless 

 or improper handling of brooder lamps. 



Some" of the most important requisites of a good 

 brooder may be enumerated as follows: 



