3* Money in Broilers and Squabs. 



brooders atid rooms and yards for each fifty chicks, and we heat 

 each brooder separately. We never warm a brooder house except 

 by the heat which, incidentally escapes from the brooders, nor would 

 we warm it even to pi-event every chicken from freezing to death, 

 for in that event they escape the troubles of life, while we save the 

 expense of feeding, and can bury them all in one large grave, which 

 we prefer to having tnem die ten or a dozen at a time, as they 

 surely would from the effects of a warmed brooder house, and in- 

 volving the bother of several small funerals instead of one large 

 one." 



Editor Drevenstedt hits the nail on the head in this : "Utilizing 

 g-reenhouses for rearing chickens is one of those bright but foolish 

 inspirations unfledged amateurs are guilty of. The whole atmos- 

 phere of the greenhouse is death to chickenhood. Chickens, all re- 

 ports to the contrary, are best raised under natural conditions, and 

 that means in the open air, and on the good old sod. The reason 

 why some varieties of fowls are delicate is because they have de- 

 scended from parents that have been pampered, coddled and nursed 

 into a state of dudish tenderness. Virility in chickenhood can only 

 be obtained by following nature's laws. A chicken thus kept and 

 treated is as hardy as an oak, and as tough as hickory." 



For convenience and comfort in attending to tfiem during bad- 

 weather, place all outdoor brooders under sheds. 



Campbell recommends carpeting the floor of the brooder. 



A thorough painting of all the parts of a brooder with gasoline 

 will do up the lice; the gasoline soon evaporates, leaving the broodei 

 nice and clean. 



