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Show HENS NEED WATER TO PRODUCE EGGS Also Well to Heat It in Cold Weather. Forty cents a quart is I high price for water, but that is what it is estimated esti-mated to be worth when converted into eggs worth 30 cents a dozen. A dozen eggs contain about a pint of water. No wonder hens like to drink. But that is only one of the demands for water by liens. It Is calculated that 100 laying hens will transpire at least three gallons of water per day as vapor, a fact that makes an adequate ade-quate watering system and an adequate ade-quate ventilating system vitally essential essen-tial In the poultry house. Damp litter and damp walls ' cold weather u In large measure due to this giving off of moisture by the hens. Suppose only a third of that three gallons of water wa-ter fails to get away by means of the ventilating system. In a week there will be five gallons of water absorbed by the litter, doors and walls, with inevitable reduction in production and probably the beginning of "disease. In winter weather the use of water heaters has been proved a profitable practice. Energy used up by the hen in warming icy water is energy subtracted sub-tracted from the egg basket. An electric elec-tric current or some other simple heating heat-ing device can warm water much more cheaply than can th' hen. Exchange. |