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folds of flannels or woolen cloth for the chicks to nestle 
among. This is shown in the illustration. A glazed 
cover is put over the front of the brooder where the 
chicks are fed. Newly hatched chicks do not want 
feeding for twenty-four hours or more, but they will 
drink some water (or, better, milk) eagerly, and this 
should be supplied to them in a shallow plate. If one 
is taken in the hand and its heak is dipped in the water, 
Fig. 4, 
it learns to drink at once. Crumbs of ccrn bread or 
cracked wheat are good food for such young chicks 
while they are in the brooder. It will interest some 
persons to know that in some hospitals in Paris similar 
warm brooders have been used for weakly infants for 
many years, and the writer saw them there thirty years 
ago, used in elmost precisely the same manner as is here 
described for the previously mentioned brooder for 
chicks (Fig. 43). 
