Show Lanterns as Henhouse Lights Dm ing Winter Vinter There Titers Is no que question tion but what pro pro- providing viding siding the laying laving flock with a twelve twelve- twelve hour hour day dav y throughout the winter Inter by means of ot artificial light at the begin beginning beginning ning or end of the day or both pays pa q under 10 Iowa a conditions More and more farm flocks are being thus helped to tomake tomake make the best of warm arm houses and goo good rations during the months of short chort days Generally providing the poultry house with Ith lights has lias been a as assumed assumed to go hand In hand with elec electricity on the farm But nut as yet a n corn com raU p ely small per cent of Iowa farms are electrically equipped During the last two t ears 1 I have base vi visIted ite at least a n dozen Iowa farms where here hereIt It was ns called to my mv attention that I tn tern terns had been u used e to furnish lI light ht for the chicken house sn saga s n a writer In Wal lice's Farmer In most c c these were gasoline lanterns although r I know at least one farm woman re reported reported ported portell the use of an nn oil pressure kern kNO acne sene lamp If It equipped with ith reflectors ot of the ri rl ht sort and hung In the right part of the tha poultry house these lan lan- lanterns lan Ian lanterns terns have hale proved probed ft a safe and desirable sort of light For those without elec elec- electricity electricity this sort of ot lighting for the poultry house Is worth orth investigation and trial |