SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
fit your lamp. The ground floor is best 
for brooder house, if kept dry. A wooden 
or cement floor should be covered with 
fresh soil often. Use the incubator plans 
and specifications in making the brooder. 
The same regulator and everything except 
the door and long legs. In fact, you can 
convert your incubator into a brooder by 
removing the door and putting on a cur- 
tain and short legs and putting in a false 
bottom. 
I am now, since these plans were 
written, making a brooder 24” square, 
with single walls and without any bottom. 
The top, however, is double, same as the 
top of the incubator. This brooder is 
intended to be used in a brooder house, 
with a ground floor so that a box can be 
sunk in the ground for the lamp. It 
broods fifty chicks nicely, and is giving 
good satisfaction at our poultry plant. 
Its advantages are: That it is lighter to 
handle and cheaper to make, both in lum- 
ber and labor, and it broods as many 
chicks as ought to be brooded in one flock 
with this style of brooder; it is also easier 
to clean and manipulate, for it can be 
raised up on its edge, where it will stand, 
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