Show I Homemade Electric Pig Brooder of Value Simple to Construct v vAnd And Easy to Operate THE PHE HE electric pig brooder Is fast I becoming popular and profitable on farms where pigs are farrowed in late winter or early spring The brooder prevents chilling and keeps keeps' sows from lying on pigs the pigs the common cornmon com corn mon man causes of losses Death losses of early spring pigs I were reduced from to per ELECTRIC BROODER SAVES PIGS FIGS r Kr cent by the use of electric brooders brooders brooders brood brood- ers in Indiana tests Electric brooders saved an average of 1 4 more pigs per litter An electric pig brooder is inexpensive inexpensive inexpensive sive and easy to make On many a farm there are enough pieces of lumber to make one or more brood brood- ers The sketch shows how to make makeI I an electric brooder to put in m one corner of the farrowing pen For the first few days use a watt lamp if the weather is extremely extremely extremely ex ex- cold At the end of a week a watt 60 bulb may supply enough I heat When pigs are 10 days or two weeks old heat can be discont discontinued It is important to use a rubber- rubber I covered shop extension cord complete complete complete com com- with rubber-covered rubber socket i Standard brass shell sockets are not notI suited to this type of use It is also atso I important to protect the brooder with a plank nailed across the c corner cor corner cor- cor r- r I ner so a nervous sow cannot de deI destroy de I stroy stray it |