. Poultry and profit. hich Mr. Tapley referred appeared in the WesternPoultry Advocate, and the notes were written by Mr. L. My friends brooder had a loose lid made as onhis first-stage chicken coop, and the little door was made toslide to one side instead of being hinged. The ventila-tion holes, too, consisted of two rows on each side, one setnear the bottom and the other just over the top of thehover. The box was made of ^ inch planed wood, and thedimensions were 2 feet square and 1 foot high, the doorbeing 6 inches wide and 4 inches high. There is no need 104 POULTRY AND PROFIT fo
. Poultry and profit. hich Mr. Tapley referred appeared in the WesternPoultry Advocate, and the notes were written by Mr. L. My friends brooder had a loose lid made as onhis first-stage chicken coop, and the little door was made toslide to one side instead of being hinged. The ventila-tion holes, too, consisted of two rows on each side, one setnear the bottom and the other just over the top of thehover. The box was made of ^ inch planed wood, and thedimensions were 2 feet square and 1 foot high, the doorbeing 6 inches wide and 4 inches high. There is no need 104 POULTRY AND PROFIT for me to give the whole of the article as it appeared in thepaper, but the following particulars will suffice to enablethose who are anxious to give this type of brooder a trialto make one themselves : A cleat is nailed on each side of the box, four inchesfrom the bottom, for the hover to rest on. The sides ofthe box are padded with cut hay or straw. A piece of bur-lap (coarse hemp) eight inches wide and long enough to. A FIRELESS BROODER, WITH SLIDING DOOR.(Lid removed to show the hover)f reach round the box is secured. Three pieces of lath aresawed, two the width of a lath shorter than the width of thebox, and one length of the box. The edge of the burlap isplaced under these laths and the laths nailed to the bottomof the box. The padding material is then put in and theloose end of the burlap drawn up and tacked to the side ofthe box even with the cleats on which the hover rests. Thiscan be done before the cleats are put on and the end of theburlap drawn up under the cleats to fasten it. The frameof the hover is made of five pieces of lath. Two of thepieces are the length of the box inside, and cut to resteasily on the cleats. The three short pieces are one-half REARING AND FEEDING 105 inch shorter than the box is wide. These are laid on thelong pieces, one at each end and one in the middle, andnailed, thus forming a frame. The hover blanket is tackedto this frame so that it w
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