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care must be used not to allow the tempera- 
ture to rise too high, for while the apparatus 
is self-regulating to a degree, still it has 
happened that chickens have been over- 
heated, which danger is greater than that 
they will not get enough heat. 
Brooder raised chicks depend upon you 
to supply some of the attentions that the 
mother hen supplies. It is best that only one 
person attend to any heated brooder or incu- 
bator, so as to avoid the duplicating of any 
detail and the missing of any other. 
A partition divides the heated apartment 
from the non-heated or exercising room, en- 
trance to which is through a little door. 
When opened it does not take the little fel- 
lows long to discover the other room. They 
soon run back and forth from the cool to the 
warm part, but they should be watched at 
first for fear some will forget the way back 
and so get cold. Chaffy hay seed should be 
scattered on the floor of both apartments to 
the depth of a couple of inches, keeping the 
floor clean and inducing exercise. Little 
chicks can be kept safely in these houses in 
very cold weather. In such weather this 
seems the only practical way of brooding 
them, 
