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BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



Long Brooder and Stock House. 

 when the accommodations of the pipe brooder house are 

 insufficient, individual brooders are put in this house, and 

 chicks removed to it several weeks before they are ready to 

 do without artificial heat. The unevenness of results in 

 hatching makes it quite necessary to have on any large 

 plant some buildings which can be used for either small or 

 weaned chicks, as desired, otherwise in a season of more 

 than average good hatches the grower may easily find his 

 very success in hatching a burden to him because of lack 

 of suitable facilities for taking care of the chicks as they 

 come. 



For winter use, and until the chicks are well past danger 

 from all the common ills of young poultry, houses in which 

 several hundred can be kept are usually found more con- 

 venient. For spring and summer use, and for well grown 

 chicks at any season, the South Shore growers use small 

 colony houses of such styles as are shown on pages 50 and 



