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the brooder and chickens, soon learn how to remedy 

 the most serious difficulties, whereas another, 

 through a lack of sufficient knowledge of that 

 particular brooder, would fail to secure the essen- 

 tials in rearing young fowls. There are many brood- 

 ers that are capable of producing good results if the 



FIG. 75. Gasoline-heated, colony brooder houses Cornell University. 



proper attention be given them; but the manner of 

 caring for the young, which find in them a home, 

 is of greater relative importance than the particular 

 construction of the machine. 



Home-made brooders. It is often desirable and 

 sometimes necessary to construct at home a con- 

 siderable portion of the appliances used in the 

 modern poultry yard. Sometimes material is at 



