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Show BROODER FOR LITTLE CHICKS Illustration and Directions. Given foi Constructing Comfortable Place for Youngsters. This fireless brooder will accommo date 25 to 50 chicks, according to th weather. If the hover Is removed it makes an excellent brood coop for hen and chicks. Make the bottom of brooder brood-er 2 feet 8 inches by 1 foot 10 inches inch-es of boards, nailed on 2 by 2-inch scantlings. For the upper part use 2 by 2-inch posts for the uprights, those in front 17 inches long, and the rear 11 inches. Make the coop 2 feet 10 Inches long, 2 feet wide, 18 inches high in front and 12 Inches at the back, writes Arthur S. Wenger of Dayton, Va., in the Missouri Valley Farmer. This will allow the coop to set down over the floor, the posts resting rest-ing upon the floor boards. Make two openings in front, one 8 by 8 Inches, the other 12 by 20. For the smaller opening make a sliding door, and cover cov-er the other with fine mesh wire netting. net-ting. Make a frame and cover with muslin to slide over this netting during dur-ing cold or stormy weather. For the roof take two pieces of -inch board 2 inches wide and 3 feet long, and three pieces of the same dimension 2 feet 2 inches long. Notch the long pieces at end and center to 1 inch wide, so the crosspleces can be nailed In to make a fiat frame. Cover this frame with three-ply roofing stretched tight and nailed around edge and through center. Hinge the cover to hack of coop and put a small hook In front to hold it shut. Foi the hover hake a box 18 inches square and 8 inches high with a hole 4 inches square in- one side for chicks to go in and out. Put in a bottom but no top. Make a wooden frame to fit rather loosely in this box and tack Explanatory Sketch. muslin on one side of frame with a pleat in each corner so it will sag about 2 inches. Put a nail in each corner of box 4 inches from bottom for frame to rest upon. Have about 1 inch of fine hay chaff in bottom of box. Put in chicks and cover top of muslin with burlap sacks or any soft material. In warm weather they will need very little cover. |