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sprouting the oats. As the chickens grow older the flame can be 

 turned down and the heat reduced by degrees. The second week 

 90 degrees is about right for them, the third week 85 to 90 degrees, 

 and the fourth week 80 to 85 degrees. If the weather is warm they 

 will commence to desert the hover when they are five or six weeks 

 old and remain in the exercising room of the brooder. During the 

 early Spring months give them 80 degrees until they are six or eight 

 weeks old, and after they are ten or twelve weeks old the weather 

 has moderated sufficiently to take them from the brooder and place 

 them In a piano-box colony house that is described on page 55. I 



Cut of brooder made from a piano box. 



keep them in these houses until they are taken to their quarters. 

 The cockerels are separated from the pullets when they are taken 

 from the brooder. I have the parks containing these brooders plowed 

 and cultivated every Spring and sowed with rape seed. This pro- 

 duces a splendid iireen feed up until the snow flies, and it also makes a 

 splendid shade. It furnishes them with lots of bugs and worms, 

 which are generally found on such plants. At one end of the park 

 I planted two or three dozen hills of sunflowers, which make excel- 

 lent shade and give a crop of seeds. It is in here that they have 



