MY FAILURES 
anything about making one; then I tried 
to find somebody that had some experi- 
ence in the management of them, and I 
also failed in that; so I was thrown alto- 
gether on my own resources. 
I then set my brains and hands to work 
trying to make a brooder. This took place 
during my first three weeks’ vigil with 
my borrowed incubator. I guess my mind 
was not very clear during that time, for 
I made the most unnatural brooder that it 
is possible for a man to make; it had bot- 
tom heat, when it should have had top heat, 
and there was not even enough of that. 
When my first hatch came off, which 
I have already told you about, all of which 
died, I put them under this brooder. They 
commenced dying at once, and I guess, if 
the truth was known, the brooder was 
somewhat to blame for this one hundred 
per cent. death-rate; anyhow, they all 
died. Perhaps the food had something 
to do with it, too; I think it did; at any 
rate, this hatch of chickens was well out 
of the way before the next hatch came off, 
and I had the old brooder rebuilt and 
ready for the next hatch when they 
came off. 
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