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possible to secure enough sitting hens 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 



