Show HEAT AND LIGHT MEAN MORE EGGS Maintain Feed Consumption in Sudden Cold Spells Heat Reat and light In the hen lien house honse mean more eggs when eggs are ure high In price And the purpose of both heating and lighting Is to ke keep p th laying hen lien eating as much feed as she sheran tan ran be persuaded to take No o slump In egg production Is likely to accompany a R sudden cold snap If It ItI I the normal feed consumption Is main tamed according to the poultry husbandry hug bus I bandry department of ot the Ohio State university One method of controlling the temperature Is through Insulation of Dr th the chicken house hous This however may nearly double the cost of the structure Some poultry men are findIng find find- Ing lag that by placing brooder stoves In to Inthe Inthe the laying anuses und and firing them during dur duro I In ing hig the extremely cold weather they can sufficiently raise the temperature In n case neither insulation nor artificial heat beat Is practicable the poultry specialists special special- recommend the feeding of small quantities of moistened milk mash and small quantities of grain at frequent Intervals during the da day When artificial lights are used to increase Increase In in- crease egg production they should not be used to give more than more than a n total of ot 14 hours of light a day Failure to supply lights regularly or to provide water and feed when the lights tights go on also give bad results |