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excellent food for young chicks, but will not take the place 

 of water which must also be supplied. 



Although the temperature under the hover should be 92 

 to 95 degrees the first few days, it is hot advisable to keep 

 it so warm after the third day. Ninety degrees is sufficient 

 for the youngsters until they are ten days old, after which , 

 the temperature should be gradually reduced until it is 

 eighty-five at the end of the second week and not over eighty 

 at the end of the third week. On the matter of heat, 

 well-known authorities differ considerably. Some claim 

 that eighty degrees is oufiBcient any time after the chicks are 

 four or five days old while others claim to have better results 

 when a heat of ninety or more, is maintained until the end 

 of the third week. Our experience ha,s indicated that; strong, 

 healthy chicks which have plenty of pure air to breath do 

 not require a high temperature after the, first ten days. 

 Chicks kept- in a brooder- which is poorly ventilated or which 

 is operated in a building which 'has not adequate ventila- 

 tion will crowd toward the warm corners of a brooder when 

 the tempetature is ninety, more than will a flock which has 

 plenty of pure life-giving air to breath in a temperature of 

 eighty degrees. 



The little chicks need plenty of room in which to exercise. 



A Coop Eight Feet Long and Four Feet Wide in Which an Indoor 

 Brooder is Operated, 



