72 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
A SUCCESSFUL BROODER HOUSE: 
BY F. H. STONEBURN. 

No part of the equipment of a poultry farm is of greater im- 
portance than the arrangements for artificial brooding. The 
adult fowls, vigorous and well protected by nature, may sur- 
vive and even thrive under adverse conditions, but the tiny 
chicks must have careful treatment. 

Fig. 22. Brooder House. 
The importance of the brooder house is emphasized when 
we consider that everyone engaged in commercial poultry keep- 
ing desires to produce a large proportion of his annual crop of 
chickens at some time of the year other than the natural breed- 
ing season of his fowls. This is true whether the main object 
be the production of meat or of eggs. Fall-hatched chicks are 
carried through the winter to be sold in the spring as roasters; 
winter-hatched chicks are marketed as early broilers; while the 
early spring-hatched stock is either marketed at the broiler age 
or carried to maturity to be used as breeders or egg producers. 
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