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tKe brooders. The price of our out-door brooders as quoted 

 are without the rat-proof yards. They are made in four 

 sizea. 



RELIABLE INDOOB BEOODEBS. 



A brooder to be properly constructed must furnish top- 

 heat and be so arranged that he chicks can, of their own 

 accord, go to the heat or come away from it, just when they 

 please. Here is to be found one of the main secrets of suc- 

 cess in brooding chicks without the use of hens. This com- 

 pany, would, if it wished to, manufact- 

 ure and sell a bottom-heat brooder. 

 We did so for many years, or untU we 

 learned better. They can be made 

 much cheaper, but we want our patrons 

 to succeed, not fail. By all means, 

 then, sfcear clear of all bottom heat 

 brooders, and do not under any consid- 

 eration consent to use- a brooder which 

 does not permit the chicks to go at 

 will, both to the heat and away from 

 it. The longer time, or the more time 

 (on account of severe weather) the 

 chicks have to 'Spend inside the brood- 

 ers, the more important these matters 

 become. Bear in mind, that it is as in- 

 jurious to chicks to overheat them as it is to allow them to 

 chill. 



The accompanying illustrations, reproduced from a pho- 

 tograph, give a good idea of what the Improved Eeliable 

 Indoor Brooders are like. The hot-water and hot-air brooders 

 are exactly the same, except that the former is heated by 

 means of water in, a copper tank (same quality of copper as 

 is used in the hot-water incubators), while the latter is 

 heated in the same way as the hot-air incubators. 



Both tho hot-water tank and the hot-air reservoir are 

 located in the top of the rear half of the brooders, leaving 

 a space of six inches in the clear underneath them. In front 

 of the tank and extending to the floor of the brooder is a 

 curtain of heavy woolen cloth. This curtain partitions the 



apartment. Whenever the surrounding temperature will per- 

 mit, they should be allowed to run out of the brooder into 

 exercising yards. If they get a~ little chilly they will run 

 back into the brooder as readily as they do under a hen. 

 Unlike the notional old hen, the brooder is at all times ready 

 to hover any or all of the chicks. With the hen a large per 

 cent of the early hatched chicks die, because she will not 

 hover them when they need warmth. This fact alone rend- 

 ers it impracticable to raise early chickens with profit by 

 the hen method. 



REUABU6 ,a BROODER 



brooder into two equal parts, and, by retaining the larger 

 amount of heat coming from the tank or reservoir in the 

 rear apartment, furnishes two different temperatures for the 

 chicks, one of which is fifteen degrees warmer than the 

 other. The chicks (which are their own best thermometer) 

 can go into either apartment as they please. If they feel 

 at all chilly, they will go behind the curtain; if they sboiild 

 become too warm there, they will come out into the cooler 



«0-CHICK RELIABLE INDOOR BROODER 



BELIABLE SECTIONAL DOUBLE-LOOP HOT-WATEB 

 BBOODEBS. 



Herewith are shown our latest improved sectional brood- 

 ers, which we make in lengths as follows: 3 feet, 6 feet, 9 

 feet, 12 feet, 15 feet and 18 feet. These double-loop hot- 

 water brooders are piade with pipes extending only one way 

 from heater, unless they are over 12 feet long, when we ex- 

 tend the pipes both ways from heater; so in the 18-foot 

 brooder the farthest place from the source of heat is only 

 nine feet, and so arranged that where the brooder extends 

 both ways from the heater, the heat can be shut off from one 

 end of brooder, when not in use, if so desired, thus saving oil. 

 This double-loop hot-water brooder is meant for use 

 in the sunny corner of a room, poultry house, barn, or in a 

 small-sized brooder house. On page 47 is shown a style of 

 house in which four or more of these brooders can 

 be used to excellent advantage, the house being de- 

 signed to secure direct sunlight in the pens on both 

 sides of the central aisle. If one row of pens is 

 desired instead of two, then a house with a simple 

 shed roof is sufficient, with the windl)ws (16x24 in- 

 ches) placed under the eaves. 



These sectional brooders are the most economical 

 trooding device on the market. The heating system is 

 perfect. In the interior v iew of the house shown 

 the wire partitions to the pens or runs are omitted, 

 so that a better view can be obtained: The rear ends 

 ;r of these partitions should rest on top of the brooder, 

 just far enough back of the hingfes to allow the 

 doors to the hover (one of which is shown partly rais- 

 ed) to be opened from the aisle, in order that the at- 

 tendant can clean out under the hovers each day or 

 every other day without having to enter each pen. 

 The pens can be entered from the central aisle through 

 doors placed in the end partitions. 



Before the chicks are placed in these brooders, put from 

 four to six inches of dry sand on the floor of the runs, ex- 

 tending it in under the brooder (it has no bottom,) thus 

 bringing the tiny chicks up four to six inches nearer the 

 warm pipes than they would b^ if they stood on the floor 

 of the house. A dirt floor is all that is needed for such 

 a house, but it must be dry. 



