SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
rule, about fifty-two inches in diameter 
and is usually provided with a curtain 
made of thick, heavy, warm cloth that 
hangs down to the floor; the hover is 
also provided with means by which it 
can be raised up out of the way while 
cleaning the floor and caring for the 
stove. 
If success is expected in raising little 
chickens, the brooder must be a good one. 
Nature supplies the little chickens with 
just as good a mother after they are 
hatched as she does before, and if man 
would succeed with small chickens, he 
must do so too. The idea, that most 
people have, that any old box of a thing 
is good enough to brood the chicks under 
after they are hatched, has led to more 
failures than any other one thing. The 
brooder should be able to maintain a 
fairly even temperature of about 95° F. 
during all kinds of weather. It should 
have good and constant ventilation. It 
Should be easily cleaned. If it has these 
three qualities and is kept clean, and 
not crowded, and the chicks are prop- 
erly fed, and the breeding stock are 
what they should be, and the hatching 
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