THE SOFT ROASTER INDUSTRY 



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Type of Colony Houses Used in the Rearing of Soft Roasters. 



Brahmas are especially fitted for early hatching and the 

 Plymouth Rocks for the later hatching. 



Different Systems of Brooding Used. 



To be successful in an undertaking of this kind, one must 

 be an expert with incubators and brooders, especially the 

 latter. The brooder has been the object of special study 

 by these men, yet they differ much in their opinion of the 

 best method. Henry D. Smith, a ^lassachusetts poultry- 

 man, has discarded hovers, uses the open piping and heats 

 the whole house. He pays no attention to the temperature 

 of the house in general, but the effect is that the whole house 

 is heated. 



Some use individual brooders until the chicks are from 

 three to four weeks old and then put them in a pipe system 

 brooder house. Others use the regular brooder house with 

 hovers for three to five weeks and then transfer to colonv 



