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cold house, and certainly no one has the right to expect 

 them to do well in such hands. 



Method of Brooding 



All available help is called into action when a load of 

 chicks arrives and they are unloaded as quickly as pos- 

 sible. The first boxes are carried to the farther side of 

 the room. They are set on the outside of the wire circle, 

 half of them on each end of the house. They are not 

 piled up. On a hot day the lids are taken off the boxes 

 as they are set down. If the sun is bright and strong 

 the curtains are dropped over the windows to keep the 

 chicks from crowding toward the strong light. 



Set a box close to the circle, sidewise, kneel down by 

 the side of it and lift the chicks over the wire in bunches 

 of five. Dip right into them with both hands. Have a 

 pencil handy, and when you have emptied a box, mark on 

 the lid of it the number of chicks you counted out. If 

 dead ones are found toss them aside into one pile and 

 count the dead when the live ones are all out. Don't 

 drop the little chaps if you can help it — some men can 

 handle them in what appears a rough manner without 

 hurting thpm but this comes from long experience. 



Move as rapidly as you can and don't mind the chirp- 

 ing; you will grow accustomed to it. They will "chup" 

 quite a bit for a day or two until they have settled down. 

 Meantime you will be surprised to see many of them 

 drinking and eating before you get the last box emptied. 

 The idea of tilting the fountain is to bring the water to 

 the very edge so that when a little bill is laid to it the 

 moisture is found at once. You want to get them started 



