AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
machines can secure about as good results with 
them located in one of the rooms of his dwelling. 
A cellar makes a very good place for the location 
of the machine, providing it is dry and well venti- 
lated; a damp, musty cellar is the poorest place 
possible for successful incubation. There are only 
two rooms in the ordinary house in which we would 
not want to run an incubator on account of results, 
viz., a room with a fire in, because the hatches 
would probably be poor; a bedroom, because the 
fumes and gases from the machine would make the 
atmosphere unhealthy to sleep in. 
A good brooder is every bit as important as a 
good incubator, if not more so, for the reason that 
Construction it is more difficult to raise chicks than 
and Operation to hatch them, and it is the number of 
of Brooders chicks raised, and not the number 
hatched, that makes or unmakes the profit. A poor 
brooder will kill the chicks faster than a good incu- 
bator can hatch them. 
A good brooder is considerably more than 
merely a box with a lamp set inside it, and sells for 
more money. Many beginners seem to have the 
idea that any kind of an arrangement will serve 
the purpose of a brooder very well, so long as 
it keeps the chicks reasonably warm. The more 
experience one has, however, the more he realizes 
what a serious mistake this is, and the more he 
appreciates what a really good brooder means 
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