Distillate burner for heating brooder boiler 



too many fall down in brooding. A well-bred chick correctly incubated 

 placed in a diabolical brooder is certain failure. True, many good 

 chicks squeeze through to maturity in spite of the crowded brooder 

 conditions. The brooder season is so short as compared to the success 

 or failure of the balance of the season that one cannot afford to neglect 

 the slightest detail. Good pullets at the beginning of the laying season 

 is the end in view, and no stone should be left unturned to make them 

 the best possible. You can well afford to put much stress on this short 

 six weeks brooding period, for does not your whole year's profit depend 

 upon the kind of pullets that come from this brooder? How many 

 extra good pullets would it take to pay the hire of an extra man during 

 this short breeding period? The hardest part of the poultryman is to 

 reproduce productive hens in large numbers. 



The man who advocates placing a thousand chicks in a low, tight- 

 sealed room, with hardly a ray of sunlight, with a stove in the center 

 that squanders heat in every way except in the exact spot where it is 

 most needed, heat in the top of the room till it makes you dizzy, heat 

 going out of the chimney trying to warm up all outdoors and a thousand 

 little chicks walking over each other trying to find the correct heat, 

 first too hot on inside, then too cold on outside of this circle, and all 

 the clammy, dusty, rotten air drawn over their little backs continually 

 toward the stove I say that the man who advocates this inferno for 

 baby chicks should be made to pass just one week in this tuberculosis 

 factory and he would never live to tell the tale. It will take us too many 

 centuries to make moles and bats out of chicks, so why not give them 

 their natural conditions of sunshine and fresh air and work along the 

 lines of least resistance? Success is always easy along nature's way. 

 If we work with nature we cannot make a mistake, for she has been so 

 long at the game. Every time a chick sticks its head from under the 

 brooder it should have pure air free from dust to breathe. It should 

 have heat enough in the brooder to keep the body warm while its head 

 is outside breathing air that had never been in a pair of lungs before. 

 A thousand pairs of lungs in one hermetically sealed room pumping 

 the air over and over again until there is hardly enough oxygen left 



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