SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
In late years I have experimented, 
further, with incubators as well as brood- 
ers, and I am now able to build machines 
that are better than any that I have ever 
seen, and the cost of them is very small: 
and then, too, they are so simple that any- 
body that is handy with tools can build 
them, and the tools necessary are such as 
are usually found on the farm. 
I have never failed to make a flock of 
hens produce eggs at a profit; how I do 
this with a flock of very poor layers is a 
secret, but I guess I had better tell my 
readers how I do it. It is so very 
simple that you will be surprised that 
you did not think of it before; all you 
have to do is to weed out the non-layers 
and the poor layers, and follow the 
teachings of this book. 
After improving the 
old incubator so that it 
would hatch the chickens, 
the next problem was a 
brooder with which to raise them. I could 
not find a neighbor lady, with a roguish 
twinkle in her eye, who had an old brooder 
she wanted to get rid of, nor could I find 
anybody in the neighborhood who knew 
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My First Experi- 
ence with a 
Brooder 
