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inculjators, that they should be placed where the 

 temperature will not be very variable nor too low. 



With regard to the rearing of chickens, the first 

 point, whether natural or artificial methods are em- 

 ployed, if hatching is to be out of the ordinary season, 

 is to have a large chicken-house or roomy shed, in 

 which the coops or brooders can be placed. Other- 

 wise there would be great mortality during the winter 

 months. The chicken-house should face the south or 

 south-east, have plenty of glass in it, be thoroughly 

 well ventilated, and the floor be thickly covered with 

 either dry sand or peat-moss litter. Herein the 

 chickens can run about, and if fed properly will thrive 

 excellently during the colder months of the year. We 

 show here a form of house which was some time ago 

 described in an American publication (Fig. 3), and 

 which may be made any size. It is gabled almost to 

 the ground, has a couple of windows in the roof on 

 either side, thus giving plenty of light, which is an 

 essential to success in chicken raising. In a house of 

 this kind 12 feet long by 8 feet wide six or eight hens 

 and their broods can easily be kept at one time, the 

 hens, of course, beijig confined in their respective 

 coops. Another excellent form is illustrated in 

 " Poultry Keeping as an Industry for Farmers and 

 Cottagers " (p. 66). Later on they may be placed out 

 in the ordinary coops. As to the principles of rearing 

 we must refer readers to other sources of information. 



Brooders are equally important for early chicken 

 rearing with incubators, and the same reasons for one 

 stand in the case of the other. The best brooders are 

 of the larger type, combining sleeping compartment 



