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Title: Side line poultry keeping : "two dollars a day from poultry and eggs"
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Warren, Edgar, 1858-
Subjects: Poultry Eggs Production
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : C.C. DePuy
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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t part, and this naturally attracts thechick as he seeks shelter. As he becomes warm he retiresfurther back, and in this way is always able to find a tem-perature that suits his needs. It will be seen that this brooder of Mr. Bartons violatesseveral principles that have been considered well established.The fumes of the lamp pass directly up into the hover, butthe chicks seem to suffer no ill effects from them. Indeed ahealthier or happier set of youngsters it would be hard to find.I know many men who have made a study of artificial incu-bation, but I never met a man who can get such a growthon chicks in a given time as Mr. Barton. The cost of the brooder house and equipment describedhere was $150, but it is doubtful if it could be duplicatedunder $200. But even at $200 it is the cheapest and mostpractical brooder system that the writer knows anythingabout. HATCHING BY HENS. The sitting hen should have a quiet, sequestered placewhere she can spend the time of her confinement, and be 46
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47 -made as comfortable as possible. The best place is a roomdevoted entirely to the purpose. This room should be scru-pulously clean: the walls should be whitewashed, the cob-webs swept down, and there should be good ventilation. Inthe center of the room there should be a commodious dustbath, and a dish of water should be always accessible. Thereshould be a hopper somewhere in the room, one compartmentfilled with whole corn and the other with good sharp grit. Procure of your grocer as many boxes or crates as you►expect to have sitters, and let these crates or boxes all be-of the same size, if possible. Set them on the floor, close tothe walls of the room, side by side. Take a strip of two-inchfurring and nail it to the joists back of the boxes at a height-two feet from the floor. Take another strip and run it parallelwith the first, but two feet or so from it, nailing the ends to~the studding or uprights. Brace this second strip of furringin the middle by a strip running to the flo

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