Show ELECTRIC CULTURE OF HEALTHY CHICKS one of the most interesting ures urea of a egg electrical hatchery at muskogee oklahoma is the method of forcing the growth of chicks by the aid of electric light A cowatt 60 watt tungsten lamp which by means of EL a special switch is turned ou on arid and off for alternate periods of eight hours each Is suspended in the hunu runway ay the chick fills its craw in III the eight hours of electric Il lumina tion and rests during the eight the light Is shut off thus the chicks live three electric days in two ino ordinary sunshine das in the customary way of brooding chicks eight hours out of the 24 are wasted or to express it electrically the load factor is 66 per cent the electric outfit however is run at nearly percent per cent load factor and electric chicks four weeks meeks old far out weigh chicks brooded blooded in the old way th athla is up to date method of raising chickens Is described in an illustrated article in the no november ember popular Alec mechanics hanics magazine |