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BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



Brooder and Colony House. 



ment is a favorite one with growers who hatch in the latter 

 part of winter and early spring, as by that time the dis- 

 comforts of caring for chicks in many separate houses are 

 small as compared with what they are through early and 

 midwinter, and the chicks need not be moved until 

 marketed or put into winter quarters. While, when buy- 

 ing brooders to use in .this way, the indoor style is pre- 

 ferred as costing less and suiting the conditions of a 

 substantially built coop or house better, it is sometimes 

 advisable when a brooder is to be used under cover in a 

 space so large or airy that the surplus heat from the 

 brooder would have little effect on the temperature of the 

 place, to use an outdoor brooder, which provides a space 

 intermediate in temperature between the hover space and 

 the apartment in which the brooder is placed. 



29. Outdoor Brooders. — It is only under exceptional 

 conditions, such as mentioned at the close of the preceding 



