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air is thus constantly flowing over their backs and ven- 

 tilation is perfect. A tin chimney twenty inches long 

 will carry off the fumes from the lamp. 



Put the brooder under a warm, sunny shed, and 

 set it on the ground, or bank up nearly level with the 

 floor and make a pit for the lamp with an open cover. 

 Be careful not to cover the hole where the fresh air 

 enters the brooder. Place the lamp as far under as 

 you can reach, using straight tin chimneys with isin- 

 glass windows in them. The same kind of lamps and 

 oil should be used as for an incubator. The lamp need 

 not be turned up high, nor must the chimney be nearer 

 the zinc than two inches ; eighty degrees is warm 



FIG 88: BROODER FOR MILD CLIMATE 



enough for them. No thermometer need be used in the 

 brooder. Keep dry sand on the floor and clean off the 

 droppings every morning. Let their run be small at 

 first and do not let them out when young in damp or 

 stormy weather. 



Warm Weather Brooder A brooder which will 

 answer very well for late-hatched chicks or for loca- 

 tions where the climate is mild, is that devised by a 

 successful California poultryman, who writes: 



"I have constructed a brooder (Figure 88), six feet 

 across the front, four feet in depth and six feet in hight. 

 The walls are of common rough lumber and battened ; 

 the roof is made of shakes and has a sharp pitch each 



