
POULTRY SUGGESTIONS FOR THE AMATEUR. 39 
legs about four and one-half inches long, may be used. Cheap 
felt may be tacked on for a curtain, care being taken that it is 
cut from top to bottom every five or six inches. For an out- 
side wall four four-inch strips, three feet long, nailed together, 

Fic. t11.—Home made brooder. 
and set on the brooder, will be satisfactory. . When the chicks 
are ten daysold, one side may be taken away, and a bridge used 
so that they may run from under the hover direct to the floor 
of theroom. Fig. 14 shows the lamp used in this brooder. The 
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Fic. 12.—Cross section of home made brooder house. 
burner can be bought for twenty-five cents, and the bowl may 
be made of a two-quart tin basin covered with a small pie plate 
turned bottom side up. This plate should have a hole punched 
in it and should be fastened to the collar of the burner with a 
drop of solder. It is also advisable to fasten the plate to the 
basin in the same way. 
