HOMEMADE BROODER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3604, 30 November 1905, Page 4

HOMEMADE BROODER.

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A plan !a shown horenvlth that gflv«« a brooder constructed on sample and at the same -time correct principle*. .The diagram (Fig. 1) is very nearly selfexplanatory. A box three feet square or thereabouts has in the bottom a brooder lamp or stove. Above this is a sheet of sheet iron as large a« the inside of the box and* supported at the lour sides, and by an iron prop near the lamp, if it is inclined to sag. Make the edges Sir-tight with cement, so that no fumes from the lamp can get up above the sheet iron. Have a sheet iron drum made aa indicated in Fig 3 and set this into the brooder floor, filling in the rest of the floor about the drum with cement, that there may be no danger from fire. The drum need not be over six inches in height. It has a half dozen openings under the top, as shown in the sketch. When the

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lamp is lighted air enters at one side above the eheet iron, is heated and rises in the drum, passing out through the openings into the chick chamber, and is diffused about it. Three or four ventilating holes are in the wall near .the floor for the exit of ooid air. This gives a constant movement of warm air into the brooder. These openings can be partly closed when desired. An opening in the side near the bottom of the lamp chamber and £/ae near the top on the opposite sides give fresh air for the lamp and an exit for its fumes. The lamp is inserted through a small door in the side of the box. One whole side of the brooder chamber is a drop dooi, for the easy sweeping out of the floor. The top (in door) can have a pane of glass in it, so one may see the chicks and the thermometer hanging against one side. Glass on two sides gives light. The top must fit very tightly. If this brooder is to be used out of doors a roof must be added, as indicated by dotted lines. The corners of the brooder are cut off, as seen in Pig. 2, so that the chicks may not crowd into them and the weak be

trampled upon and smothered by the stronger, should the chamber ever become cold,—Farm and Home.