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tongued and grooved. This affords a build- 
ing that is light and at the same time tight. 
Incidentally, the building has a good ap- 
pearance. This type of wall is but little 
more expensive than ordinary boards covered 
with roofing paper and it will give much 
better satisfaction. 
The floor is made of single matched floor- 
ing. If well laid it will serve just as well as 
a double floor because there should always 
be abundant litter on the floor, and thus no 
cold air can get through from beneath. 
The Brooder Stove. There are on the 
market several makes of coal-burning brooder 
stoves, practically all of which are good. 
This is the type of brooder stove that will 
give best results. In a house of the dimen- 
sions described here, four hundred to five 
hundred chickens can be brooded. With a 
brood of this size the stove should have a 
hover, or canopy, at least fifty-two inches in 
diameter. 
In making calculations to brood from four 
hundred to five hundred chickens in each lot 
care should be taken that the eggs be set in 
multiples of approximately eight hundred. 
