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possible to secure enough sitting liens at the right time — early 

 enough to hatch pullets which will mature as fall layers. In the 

 second place, a large number of sitting hens and their broods 

 require a great deal of equipment and range, not to mention care 

 in feeding; and in the third place, the expense of maintaining the 

 hens, without egg production, would wipe out the profits which 

 might be made from their broods. 



{Courtesy Candee Incubator Company) 



Fig. 191. — Double hot-water brooding system. A row of hovers located on 

 either side of a central alleyway. 



These factors have always been of importance: to-day they 

 are vital to success. The hen must be kept on the job of laying. 

 Her work of rearing young must be left to the machine. 



Makes of Brooders. — There are a number of brooding systems 

 in vogue, and a wide variety of makes from which to select or 

 evolve a particular scheme, one that is adaptable to given cir- 

 cumstances. There is as much, if not more, choice with brooders 



