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Show Hens Fooled Into Brisk Egg Laying by Electric Eiaze Climb From Perches and Get Busy When Keeper Turns on Current. F1VK O'CLOCK is the regular sun-Tise sun-Tise time for t00 hens who arc of the creature population of a farm in I a vis county, owned by .Sheriff John S. Corlcss. It is accomplished by the establishment establish-ment of electric lights in the hen houses. Sheriff Corb'fS says that a per cent i m-rea-e in egg production has been the net re.MiIr. ' 4 You see, ' 1 haid t he sheriff, 4 ' t ho union hours for a laving hen are from sun to sun. You give t hem reu lar union hours, and thev will do the reM. In the all of the year, when Ihe days becin get t i ng short er t ha 11 the union si hod ul e, tho wal k ing delegate of t hn hen vard warns the hens to cptit product pro-duct ion, and there, a re no mure eggs unt il "-pring. "Now, when, you switch on the electric elec-tric lights at ." o'dot k of winter mornings, morn-ings, the hens climb doirn from the rooM.s a nil btart work. liy t lie t i me night comes t hey have accomplished a J'n 1 1 da v 's work, a ud eggs are the re- Mllt." " |