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weather. They vary as to details, but usually are divided 

 into two general compartments or rooms. One ■ of these 

 contains the hover, and the other is for scratching and 

 exercise. Three temperatures are available for the chicks: 

 the hover temperature, the temperature of the rest of the 

 compartment containing the hover, which will be some- 

 what cooler, and that of the scratching apartment, which 

 is still cooler. 



Fig. 120 



Showing the position of the heater boxes of the universal hover, 

 of Kansas Experiment Station.) 



(Courtesy 



The indoor brooder, which formerly differed from the out- 

 door brooder only in being a little less substantially built 

 and frequently containing the hover compartment only, 

 now usually consists of a hover alone, the building in which 

 they are housed serving as the brooder proper. 



These brooders are of two types. The adaptable or uni- 

 versal type has the heater apart from the hover, situated on 

 the outside of the building, attached to the wall. The heater 



