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little tables, one yard square and three inches high, 
with strips of cloth tacked around the edges. 
The advantages of this brooder are, that it gives the 
heat from the top, as the warm air strikes the under side of 
the table (or brooder) and diffuses itself over the chicks, 
which cannot crowd easily, as there are no sides or cor- 
ners. The warm air is pure, as it comes in fresh from 
the outside, and serves as heat and ventilation at the 
sametime. Figs. 46 and 47 show the ground plan. The 
building has a window to each apartment, which is hung 
to a weight, so as to move up or down. Hence, when 
the window is up each apartment becomes ashed, open to 
the south. The chicks have a sand floor to scratch in, 
and are allowed to run in the yards when two weeks 
old. 
This building, together with the heating arrange- 
ments, did not cost over one hundred dollars. Thechicks 
are about ready for market, and are expected to realize 
six hundred dollars gross. The cost for feeding the 
chicks to the age of ten weeks is ten cents. The total 
cost, including the value of eggs, food, and other ex- 
penses is about nine cents per pound. They will average 
one and a half pounds when eight weeks old, and often 
bring fifty cents per pound. The building contains one 
thousand chicks, and as a new brood can be put in every 
ten weeks, it will hold five thousand in a year. The 
building and yards do not take up more than twenty-six 
by fifty feet of space, or less than one thirtieth of an 
acre. 
The chicks are fed on hard-boiled eggs the second day, 
no food being given them the first day. Then milk and 
bread are allowed. On the fourth day they are fed on a 
mixtnre of one part corn meal, one part bran, and 
one part middlings, with a small quantity of bone 
meal and ground or finely chopped meat. They are 
fed five times a day till feathered, then four meals are 
