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Show USING A FIRELESS BROODER Box Protected by Wool Carpet and Heated by Small Jug of Warm Water Wa-ter is Excellent. A there are many poulfrymen who prefer to raise chicks in a tireless brooder, we give here a plan suggested sug-gested by W. D. Neale, which has been used successfully for two years, says the Iowa Homestead. He secured a box three feet long, sixteen Inches wide and eight Inches deep V from his grocer for fifteen cents. An opening was made in one side of the box four inches in width and height to admit the chicks. To fit in this box, make a frame of laths two inches less in width and length than the box. The laths were placed Flreless Brooder. about three inches apart and nailed securely to cross pieces at either end. This frame fitted inside the box and rested on nails, two at each end. driven through the box at the desired height These nails were withdrawn and driven higher in the ends of the box aa the chicks grew so that they would have more room beneath tha frame. A piece of wool carpet was thrown over the top of the frame and pressed down beneath the lath so that Covering of Brooder. the folds would just touch the downy 1 backs of the chicks. On cold nights an extra piece of carpet was thrown j over the box or a small jug of warm I water placed inside. The bottom of 1 the box was kept covered with straw, t |