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ket; some designed for crude oil, gasoline, kerosene, distillate and 

 coal ; but, since no form of combustion is safer than that confined 

 within the iron castings of a coal stove, where coal is obtainable 

 for anything like a reasonable price, this fuel should become the 



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Fig. 20I. — Combination brooder house, colony house and laying house. 



most popular. One scuttle of coal will run a good-sized brooder 

 stove for twenty-four hours. 



The ideal house for an 8oo-chick stove is a building about fifteen 

 by thirty feet, divided in the middle by a solid partition. This 

 affords two rooms, one to be heated by the stove, and the other 

 without heat, to be utilized as a scratching pen after the chicks 

 are about a week old. There should be large windows on at 



