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Show MAKING HENS LAY BY ARTIFICIAL LIGHT There is an article In. the February Issue of Farm and Fireside about maklsg hens lay after hours by artificial arti-ficial light. The author of the article says: "Somo observations I have made and confirmed in flocks kept under lights, in the county can be summarised summar-ised as follows: "Hens when kept active twelve to fourteen hours dally by artificial lights require abundant feed and litter lit-ter to induce exercise. "Any. bright light strongly reflected reflect-ed to the floor will give, good results. But each 40 Osquare feet of floor should have about 0 candlepower. The cost of lighting a houso to ac commodate 600 hens by electricity runs from $3 or f 4 a month. "Under lights, early maturing yearlings and two year old hens lay well alt winter, but breeding" stock should not be kept under lights or they will lay too heavily and lower their value as breeders. "The feed rations can be made less rich In animal protein and a more bulky feed used when hens are kept under lights. ' ' "There Is danger of overdoing the lighting and exhausting the stock If care is not taken; but where good Judgment la used a proper distribution distribu-tion of egg production Is made possible pos-sible throughout the year without Increasing In-creasing the mortality of the layers." |