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style which is heated by hot water pipes and can 

 be built, in a manner, into the brooder house. A 

 brooder house fitted up with such brooders is shown 

 in Fig. 22. The house contains four brooders, each 

 with its indoor run and its outdoor run. The east 

 side of the house, which the brooders face, is all 

 windows, and these can be opened in warm weather 

 or closed if the weather is cold and stormy. Four 

 hundred chicks are cared for at once in this house, 

 and the owner finds it much more satisfactory than 

 brooding with hens. 



The Colony-House Brooder 



Where more than a hundred chicks are to be 

 raised artificially, the colony-house brooder is the 

 thing. A colony-house 8 x 10, holding from two to 

 three hundred chicks, can be built and heated for 

 about $30. A house twelve feet square with a little 

 larger heater will brood 600 chicks at once. 



There are many different heating systems for 

 these houses. Some heat with hot water pipes, some 

 with gasoline or distillate stoves, usually with hov- 

 ers, but sometimes without. A person contemplat- 

 ing such a brooder-house should investigate the dif- 

 ferent heating systems on the market and select one 

 which is most generally used. The gasoline heating 

 system in use at the Cornell Experiment Station is 

 very highly recommended, and, as it is not patented, 

 is not expensive. A descriptive circular may be had 

 by writing the College of Agriculture, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, Ithaca, N. Y. 



One advantage of such a system as this is that 

 the house may be used the year round. After the 

 chicks no longer need the heat, the heater may be 

 removed, and the house used as roosting house for 

 the young stock. Later, the house, if it is portable, 



