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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3610, 16 January 1906, Page 4

* It fiio fli riuwn r'vn- ♦ briodtr constructed on simple m.d at the tame time correct principles. Tbs diagram (Fig. 1) is very nearly st 1 f•xpknatory. A box three feet square ♦r thereabouts* has in the bottom a brooder; Icmp or stove. Above fids : s ASbcrt of sheet iron as large at the jxsid* of the box and’supported at the lour aides, and by an iron prop near the lamp, if it is i nclined to sag. Make the air-tight with cement, so that no fumes from the lamp can get up above the sheet irop. Have a sheet hroa dram made as indicated in Fig 3 Abd sstjhis Into the brooder floor, fill’to'the rest of the floor about the ' 4rMb,Witb cc.nsnt. that there may be AO danger from lire. The drum need AAt be over six inches in height. It has A ; badf dozen openings uud’er the top, As shown in the sketch. When the

lamp lc lighted nir enters at one side above the sheet; iron, is heated and - rixss in the drum, passing out through 4ke openings into the chick chamber, »sd Is diffused about it. Three or four ventilating holes are in the wall near the floor for the exit of co4d air. This five* a constant movement of warm •Ir Into the,brooder. These opening* m be partly closed when desired. An opening In the side near the bottom of the bmp chamber and £fee near the top on the opposite sides give fresh air tor 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 door, for the easy sweeping out of the floor. The top (in door) can have a pane of glass in it, ao one may see the sfMh&a and the thermometer hanging egsinat 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 oft, as seen in ■Fig. 3, so that the chicks may not crowd into them and the weak be trampled upon and smothered by the stronger, should the chamber ever beooae cold.—Farm and Home.