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POULTRY APPLIANCES AND HANDICRAFT 



Put two lights of glass either in the cover or on oppo- 

 site sides. 



Brooder for Fifty Chicks The brooder used by 

 Mr A. F. Stewart of Monmouth county, New Jersey, 

 is shown in the diagram (Figure 81), being two and 

 one-half by two and one-half by two feet, having can- 

 ton flannel flaps around the heating drum, in which the 

 young chicks can cuddle. The holes, a a, are for venti- 



FIG 8 1 : BROODER FOR FIFTY CHICKS 



lation. About fifty chicks are confined in each pen or 

 brooder. The feed of the young chicks for the first 

 week or two is mainly stale wheat bread (wheat being 

 preferred to rye), which can be bought cheap from 

 the baker. This is broken up fine and wet with milk 

 or water, milk if possible. After a few weeks the chicks 

 are kept in small houses. 



A Handy Little Brooder Take a box three feet 

 square and eighteen inches deep; remove top and bot- 



