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CHICKS 



saw in these brooder houses were the Hveliest and brightest 

 that he has ever seen together under artificial conditions. 

 The smallest were two or three weeks old and the largest 

 about a pound in weight. A good many of the older ones 

 had just been disposed of for broilers at forty cents each. 

 The Brooder House. 



To take up the study of the brooder house, Mr. Smith 

 first built a house sixty feet long and fourteen feet wide. 

 This was first fitted up with a hover system of brooding, 

 but this was not to Mr. Smith's liking and it was taken out. 

 The remodeled house has an aisle a little over two and one 

 half feet wide at the north side, the house facing south. 

 This house is about six feet high to the eaves and has a 

 pitch roof. To hold the heat down where the chickens 

 would get the benefit, a ceiling was constructed on a level 

 with the eaves. There is a cement floor throughout but the 

 floor level in the aisle is six to eight inches lower than in 

 the pens. 



The pens are supplied with from two to four inches of 



ExUrior of One of the Brooding Hovises Mcwtionod by A. C. Smith. 



