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and run in one, and these I can recommend with 

 great confidence. They are the " Hearson " brooder, 

 the " Westmeria " brooder, the " Tunnard " rearer, 

 and the " Calway " rearer. Mr. Calway also has a 

 small form of brooder suitable for 12 to 15 chickens 

 which can be thoroughly recommended, and a 

 similar kind of apparatus is the " Cosy Coop " 

 brooder, made by Messrs. T. & M. Wilson-Wilson, of 

 Kendal, which works excellently and is very simple. 

 At the great hatching establishments in Prance 

 great numbers of chickens are sold at an early age, 

 say under a week old. These are packed in specially 

 prepared felt-lined boxes, and they can be safely 

 conveyed hundreds of miles in this way. Of late this 

 trade has grown somewhat in our own country, and I 

 expect to see it greatly increase. In the Bromsgrove 

 district of Worcestershire the nailers sell young 

 chickens, sometimes with the hens, and a development 

 of the plan would be an advantage all round, though 

 scarcely so much where table poultry are bred as in 

 the case of amateurs. 



