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one in each of the back corners of the building. In this way 

 one end wall and the back wall of the building form two of 

 the sides of each brooder. The remaining side and cover are 

 made of cloth tacked on light wooden frames as shown in the 

 working drawings. 



The floor of the brooder stands 10 inches above the floor of 

 the house. From the front of the brooder a sloping walk ex- 

 tends down to the house floor, reaching in width clear across 

 the whole front of the brooder. The cloth front and side of 

 the brooder are not permanently fixed in position but are 

 removable panels, which are held together and to the frame 

 work by hooks and eyes (see fig. 87). The cover is hinged 

 in the middle in such a way that it can be either half opened 

 or entirely opened and folded back out of the way. In con- 

 sequence of this arrangement it is possible to regulate with 

 great nicety the amount of air which shall be admitted to the 

 brooder. Either the front or the side panel may be tilted out as 

 much as desired at the base thus admitting air there. Further- 

 more by partly opening a panel and the cover it is possible to 

 insure that there shall be a circulation of air through the brooder 

 at all times. 



The hover used in this brooder is the Prairie State Universal 

 Hover made by the Prairie State Incubator Company, Homer 

 City, Pennsylvania. It is, however, modified in certain par- 

 ticulars for present use. In the first place the arrangement is 

 such that the lamp is inside the house underneath the brooder 

 rather than in a box outside the house, as in the usual arrange- 

 ment of the Universal hover. The lamp in this brooder is in 

 the house directly under the brooder just as in the case of the 

 Peep-o'-Day. The reason for this modification is that in this 

 climate, where one is likely to have bad weather during the 

 early part of the hatching and rearing season, with heavy winds, 

 snow, and rain, it is much easier and more satisfactory to take 

 care of the lamp inside the house than from a small box out- 

 side the house. Another modification is that in the hovers 

 which are installed in these brooders an especially heavy insu- 

 lation is put on top of the drum to reduce the loss of heat by 

 radiation in extremely cold weather early in the spring. 



One of the essential points about the brooder is its compact- 

 ness in storage, and the fact that all the parts may be stored 

 in the base of the brooder itself. In this way the labor expense 



