Show I ARTIFICIAL LIGHT BRINGS MORE EGGS Hens lens Found to Respond to Lengthened Day Use artificIal lights to give the hens icus about a n thirteen or fourteen- fourteen hour our da day advises F. F E. E Andrews of 01 ofie the ie New York state college of ot ag- ag I If lights are used to Increase Increase In- In crease rease the length of at day to seventeen seven seven- teen een or eighteen hours hens will lose loso oso weight and egg production Lights are arc used In laying houses to o lengthen short days of ot fall and winter so BO that the tile hens will eat enough nough to maintain their weight and I egg gg production ThIs Is merely mak- mak ing ng a n normal condition In an on at abnormal ab- ab normal ormal time and is not a n for forcing Ing process If used with reasonable judgment Ordinarily the po poultry poultry- man should try to make In fall fail and w winter the same length of ot day and night Ight that the birds normally would have ave In the springtime This Is abou bou a n thirteen to hour fourteen day and nd a n ten to hour eleven night The length of time of at artificIal lighting will vary according to the tho quality age ge and condition of the hens Hens use lights more efficiently In n the morning than at nt night In Inie Inthe Inthe the ie morning they are usually hungry after fter several hours on the roost but ut In tile the e evening their appetite Is not ot so keen and many of ot the birds will go to the r roosts and wait walt until the ie grain Is fed before they eat MornIng Horning lights have another advantage advantage tage age over o evening lights no d dimming dim m- m ming device Is needed for the tile lights are re turned off after daylight In the evening it is to dim the tile lights for ten or fifteen minutes before before be- be fore ore turning off to send the hens henso to o the roosts Ordinarily the combInatIon com com- whereby a portion of the lights ore are given In the morning and balance alance In the evening Is most satIsfactory sat sat- both for convenience to the he and to the lighting system |