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Show MAKING YOUR OWN BROODER Directions and Illustrations Given of Suitable Shelter for the Little Chickens. In describing a brooder that Bhe had constructed herself and used successfully', success-fully', Mrs. Belle Stiles says In the Missouri Valley Farmer: A box 2V4 feet wide by 3 or 4 feet long Is made of matched lumber, eight Inches deep inside measure. A box cover six inches deep is hinged to iJ NOTCH y x DOOR END VJEW OF BOX COMPLETE CYLINDER ,WATERPUJ6 Home-Made Brooder. one side, and is hinged again in the center. A notch is made in each end of the box one-third of the way across from the hinged side, with corresponding correspond-ing notches in the cover, and in these notches rests a cylindrical tank for heating the brooder. Windows should be put in the front, and a door in one end. Small holes should be bored in the ends of the cover for ventilation. The cylinder tank is made of gal- 1,AMP |