Show PO PROVED WORTH OF LIGHT FOR CHICKS Illumination tion l That Had Good Results Within the past two years several several sev sev- era eral experiment stations have reported reported re re- re- re ported that e more nore rapid growth and lower tower death loss may be had with chicks kept In brooder bouses houses where a dim light Is used throughout through through- out the tho night Personally we are sold on this method though our use of night all-night lights was followed In our first experience two years ago ngo through necessity and not because of choice We bought some started chicks two weeks of ot age that had bad been kept In a lighted room during their two weeks' weeks living at the hatchery As dark approached at the end of their first day In our poultry house bouse they became panicky They Theyron ran ron about cheeping or piled up op In corner We brought In an ordinary ordinary ordInary or or- farm lantern and hung bung It from the ceiling The chicks then bedded down very quietly and quickly Later we ran electric wires to the brooder house and used a watt 10 light We Ve used lights un tin iJU ll the chicks were six or eight weeks old Without question this lot of chickens grew faster taster than any lot we had raised previously Our experIence experience ex ex- tallies with that of ot many others othera with whom I have talked Even 1 If the chicks become frIghtened frightened frightened fright frIght- ened they do not pile up op We found that they ate considerable feed durIng during dur dur- ing log the night even though the light was dim and so arranged that Its rays did not fall directly on the chicks when sleeping J. J. J W W. Of in Wallaces Wallace's Farmer |