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of wear and tear on the brooders themselves is involved in 

 moving them about. After the chicks have reached a si-:e when 

 it is no longer necessary for them to have a hover the brooders 

 must be moved out and stored somewhere until the houses are 

 cleaned out in the fall. Then the brooders have to be moved 

 back in again in preparation for the next year's hatching sea- 

 son. All this involves a good deal of labor. Every poultry- 

 man knows, or ought to know, that one of the primary fac- 

 tors in determining financial success or failure .in the poultry 



Fig. 86. Section through middle of brooder. Note cloth cover and 

 side, large space between floor of brooder and floor of house, in 

 which the lamp is placed while the brooder is in operation, and which 

 serves, as a storage place for the whole upper part of the brooder when 

 the latter is not in use. 



business is the labor cost. Any plan which attains a real sav- 

 ing of labor, without involving any disadvantages in other ways, 

 is to be welcomed. Certainly the operation of brooders which 

 have to be handled about so much every season constitutes a 

 labor leak, which on a large plant operating 50 to 100 brooders 

 is considerable in amount. Of course it will be understood that 

 this criticism does not apply to Peep-o'-Day brooders alone but 

 to all indoor brooders on the market known to the writer. 



