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or hay or chaff, from the feeding floor in the cattle barns. For raising 

 winter chickens the long piped brooder house is indispensable, and 

 it has many advantages when used at any season of the year. The 

 advantages are especially great when raising chickens if April or 

 May prove to be cold and wet, for then the small houses are apt to 

 be cold outside of the brooders. 



"The expenditure is greater for the piped house, for the reason 

 that colony houses should be provided in which the chickens may 

 be sheltered after they leave the brooder house. In ordinary sea- 

 sons we experience no difficulty in raising April and May hatched 

 chicks in the small houses. With proper feeding, pullets hatched 

 in these months are early enough to do good work throughout the 

 year." 



