40 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
Winter Chicks.—Fig. 13 shows a broodet in which thirty 
chicks have been housed since Feb. rst of this year, and in 
spite of more or less zero temperature there has been little 
difficulty in keeping the thermometer above ninety degrees. 
The records show that although it stood in an open field all the 
time, it consumed only about a pint of oil a day during the first 
two months. This style of brooder can be bought of almost 
any incubator firm for from twelve to sixteen dollars. It is 
supposed to accommodate fifty chicks, but during the season 

Fic. 13.—A brooder suitable for winter weather, as well as for summer. 
when the snow is on the ground and the chicks necessarily 
confined, it may be wise to limit the number to twenty-five 
or thirty. Vet, if after the first two weeks the chicks can 
get out on the ground, fifty can be easily accommodated. By 
utilizing such means as have been described one may be sure 
of raising a few early broilers. If the future poultryman will 
only ‘‘go slow’’ and practice in a small way before taking 
up the work as a business, he will be in much better shape to 
compete in our markets, and failures in poultrydom will 
decrease fully seventy-five per cent. 

