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I trimmed the wick daily, as recommended by the manutactmar of 

 the brooder, and started with a small flame. As the brooder got 

 warm the wick was turned up a little higher. By following this plan 

 when the brooder is first started there will be no chance of having 

 any of the trouble I mentioned in connection with the incubator. 

 I have had trouble a few times, which caused me to be more careful, 

 as the job of cleaning the soot from the drum and pipe was not an 

 agreeable one. While my brooder was getting heated I saw to it 

 that it was sitting level on level ground. I then banked it up around 

 the edge with earth to keep the wind from blowing under the bottom, 

 and placed it facing the east, so that the chicks could get the early 

 morning sun. Next I hung on the wall of the brooder a hopper 

 containing fine grit, charcoal and beef scrap, then put about one-half 

 inch of coarse lake sand on the brooder floor. The next day I had 

 the temperature registering 95 degrees, which is about the right 

 temperature for the brooder to receive the chicks. I ran the brooder 

 from one to two days before the chicks were ready to occupy it and 

 found that I had little trouble in maintaining* a uniform temperature, 

 excepting when the sun was shining brightly, then I turned down 

 the wick. It is always a good plan to run a new brooder, as well as 

 a new incubator, a few days, to get it regulated before the chicks 

 are put in it. The chicks hatched on the twenty-first day, and, as 

 the weather was cold, I left them in the incubator another day to 

 get well dried. Later in the season, when the weather was warmer, 

 they were removed to the brooder as soon as the hatch was well 

 over, as the confinement seemed too close for little chicks when the 

 weather was hot. 



