Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-21

to be chilled or partly suffocated:
The brooder stove is a high power
furnace capable of radiating a great
deal of heat, which, by means of a
widespread sheet iron deflector, is dis
tributed downward over the backs OF
the chicks, where it is most needed.
When taken from the incubator di-
rect to the brooder the chicks in
stinctiyely learn to form circle
around the stove with precision that
is remarkable. Without any assistance
from the attendant, they will guage
their distance from the base of the
stove entirely by the intensity of the
heat most comfortable to them. In
other words, the stove provides a
gradual decrease in temperature, from
the base, which is very hot, to the
farthest corners of the room, which
can be kept as cool as desired by ven-
tilation.
This arrangement of heating, wheh
combined with proper ventilation, is
unquestionably the most practical sys-
tenn, for it permits every chick to
seek the degree of warmth best suited
to it's individual comfort and we'll be-
ing. No matter how painstaking the
attendant may be, nor how hard he
may struggle to make a brood com
Portable, only the chicks themselves
know the warmth they require. Their
impulse is more accurate than all the
thermostats ever invented.
A brooder stove does not require
any special type of building, any more
than the house shall be fairly well
constructed, weather proof, dry and
capable of being ventilated without
direct drafts. The stove may be in
stalled in a colony house, and later,
when the brood no longer requires
artificial heat, the stove may be re-
moved and the same quarters used
for rearing the young stock. Or,
stoves may be erected in the laying
been weaned the stoves are taken
down. This factor means economy in
buildings.
Brooder, Colony and Laying House
The accompanying sketch illus
trates a building primarily intended
for brooder house, but which may
be utilized as a colony house, too, and
as a laying house, by simply adding
roosting compartments and nests The
house is common sense in every detail,
and represents the greatest economy
consistent with strong construction
and general security. A brooder
house must be tight it must be warm.
A leaky, drafty house is wasteful not
alone in the losses due to heavy
mortality but in the extra fuel re-
quired to heat the building.
The house as shown is 16 feet
square, which will accomodate a stove
of 1,000-chick capacity. In Fig. l
the building is erected a couple of
feet above the ground on concrete
piers, and has wooden floor. If a
dirt floor is contemplated it is advis-
able to put down a concrete wall for
the foundation, as shown in Fig. 2.
A wooden sill is laid on top the wall,
bolted to it, upon which the studding
or framework is erected.
In Fig. 1 the piers are in three
rows, supporting the sills at intervals
of about five feet. The sills are 3XS-in.
timbers, supporting the floor joists of
3x6-in. material on 16-in. centers. The
framework is constructed mainly from
2x4-in. stuff, including the rafters,
which have a comparatively short
span on roof of this type The walls
may consist of matched boards, COW
cred with patent roofing, novely sid
ing, or weather boards. The first
named is the cheapest and equally
as durable as any other material.
of low pitch, hence this house is roof
ed with good grade of patent roof
ing, laid on sheathing boards of
matched lumber.
Perhaps the most noteworthy fea-
ture of this house is its system of ven-
| tilation., In the four corners of the
room, about fifteen inches above the
floor line, are cut circular openings
| in the wall about six inches in DIAM
eter. These are fitted with galvan-
lied iron stovepipe and elbows in the
form of an S-shaped ventilator, point