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in the past have been failures to a greater or less degree. One of 

 the best aiTanu'cincnts we have seen is that described below. 



The brooder house is twenty-four feet wide. Has a four-foot 

 sunken alleyway inside and is heated with two hot water systems. 

 The hover rooms are three feet square and open into a runway 3x7 

 feet. 



All floors are concrete and rat proof. All screens, doors and 

 partitions are removable frames which are interchangeable so that 

 any one set of frames can be used for any brooder at any place 

 throughout the entire house. 



All watering is done in galvanized iron troughs located outside 

 of the hover rooms, placed in such a way that the chicks drink 

 through openings in the back of the hover room. By this arrange- 

 ment the troughs are kept very clean and sanitary. 



Exterior of a long brooder house of the Yesterlaid Egg Farm, Pacific, Mo. 



Near the center of the building is a kitchenette in which food is 

 prepared for the chicks for the first two or three weeks of their lives. 

 At this point there is also an oat sprouter in which between fifteen 

 and twenty bushels of oats can be sprouted at one time. 



The house is piped with water from the central water system 

 and faucets are located every forty feet along the passageway so that 

 it is not necessary to carry water any appreciable distance. 



On the opposite side of the watering pipe line is a disinfectant 

 pipe line which also has a faucet on which a hose can be fastened every 

 forty feet. In this pipe line there is always a strong solution of dis- 

 infectant under air pressure, so that all thai is necessary to disinfect 

 is to fasten on a hose and open the faucet. 



