AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 



machines can secure about as good results with 

 them located in one of the rooms of his dwelling. 

 A cellar makes a very good place for the location 

 of the machine, providing it is dry and well venti- 

 lated; a damp, musty cellar is the poorest place 

 possible for successful incubation. There are only 

 two rooms in the ordinary house in which we would 

 not want to run an incubator on account of results, 

 viz., a room with a fire in, because the hatches 

 would probably be poor; a bedroom, because the 

 fumes and gases from the machine would make the 

 atmosphere unhealthy to sleep in. 



A good brooder is every bit as important as a 

 good incubator, if not more so, for the reason that 

 Construction ' lt ' ls more difficult to raise chicks than 

 and Operation to hatch them, and it is the number of 

 of Brooders chicks raised, and not the number 

 hatched, that makes or unmakes the profit. A poor 

 brooder will kill the chicks faster than a good incu- 

 bator can hatch them. 



A good brooder is considerably more than 

 merely a box with a lamp set inside it, and sells for 

 more money. Many beginners seem to have the 

 idea that any kind of an arrangement will serve 

 the purpose of a brooder very well, so long as 

 it keeps the chicks reasonably warm. The more 

 experience one has, however, the more he realizes 

 what a serious mistake this is, and the more he 

 appreciates what a really good brooder means 



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