Show artificial LIGHT BRINGS MORE EGGS hens found to respond to lengthened day use artificial lights to give the hens about a thirteen or fourteen hour day advis q F 11 andrews of the new york state cai e of agriculture it if 11 lights ats are used ro to increase the length lenth 0 of day to seventeen or eighteen hours hens lose weight and egg production decreases dec lights are used in laying houses to lengthen short days of fall and win ter so that the hens will eat eit enough to maintain the r NN weight eight an ani I 1 egg pro th tb s Is merely making a nor mal cond tion don in an abnormal time and Is not a forcing process if used with reasonable judgment ord bartly the loul joul tryman should try to make in fill and winter the same length of day and night that the birds nor milly would have in the springtime chiq th Is about a thirteen to fourteen hour day and a ten to eleven hour night the length of time of I 1 ing will vary it ic cording to the quality age ind cond alon of the hens hens use lights more in the thin win at night in the morn ng they are hungry after sev sen era eral hours on the roosts but in the even ng their appetite Is not so keen and many of the b ads will go to the roosts and wait until the grain Is fed before they eit morn ng I 1 1 gats have mother nother i adint advin tige ige over even ng lights no d mi miling ieng dev device ice Is needed for the lights are turned off after clial in the evening it Is necessary to dim tie tl e I 1 1 gats for ten or fifteen minutes before turning off to send the hens to the roosts ordinarily the con bina tion whereby a portion of the lights are given in the morning and balance in the evening is most satisfactory both for convenience to the poultry man and to the lighting system sorting the flock 1 A broiler is a youn clil chicken chen of either sex wet weighing hing two to pounds or under 2 A spring Is a young soft boned bird of eitl er ses sex thit weighs over two pounds 3 A fo favl va Is a hen female over ae ne year old or a pullet tl ti it shows too much harness in the breast bone 1 I 1 eel to be classed as a spring 4 stags are cockerels that exhibit too much hardness harl ness of bone develop ment of spurs or comb to be classed as cpr but not enough to be classed as roosters 5 capons are cleanly castrated male mate birds C 6 sl SI ps are birds upon N w h ch eb the operation of castration has not been entirely successful 7 Po roosters are cocks mile birds over one sear old winter eggs most profitable poultry flock records kept by north D fikota poultry raisers last year show tl at I 1 agh producing flocks averaged several cents per dozen more for eggs than tl ose of lo 10 v er production tl TI is higher return was brou brought ht about by much ti gher her production of e agns s during september october de cember and last beir when eg prices are nearly twice as high as during the other months nearly all hens fild ell dur n asprin and summer so it Is 1 evident that in creases in production pr which come at periods of high egg prices are most importing import int mites work at night A real thief in to the dark Is the or ot mod mon red in te of poultry during the day in tes st ly hidden in the cracks and crevices Lre vices around the perel e es ai at d r ests in tt ti e poultry house at n abt tl ti ey conn conic out to feed on the fowls I 1 ed mites appear in all poultry ho bo ies ise as warm approaches A good wiy to control them s to paint the in tie poultry louse loue w th tb some strong oil penetrating ma ter al at caryoln cum eum creosote crude cart ol 01 r acid and ker sene mixed in eq ecial ial parts h te dizh wiste crank c se 0 I 1 I 1 me sulphur and nibot ne tie ate ire are all recommended reducing tuberculosis in one county counts of south dakota where practically all the flocks in tw t ansi aps were tuberculin tested says a writer in 11 e ditl souti rn farmer parmer on y 1 er cent of the p illets reacted v w t ere is ta per cent of the b ads over two seirs old re eted TIN tl is would andl cate alit ti it if a farm pock is In festel I 1 nn tin I 1 tl e prat re ee Is folio follo ved of d s I 1 sin f all biris at the end of the fr f rs t veir of egg prediction thit in itself won woul relive re lire very the losses losse fr m this d caring for baby chicks one of tie tl ns t witch when bilsing baby i hicl s n tt tie e fl r is t provide sufi ie le it jr r ten tp n and mineral in the trash I 1 lenta of I 1 I 1 opper space s als alq so ti flat at for tie first two weel s a hoppel four feet I 1 I 1 g v tl th feed ng surfaces ez on both sl si I 1 s s pro ded r each eachon 00 chicks ohp I 1 have tw ce as much spice fi ri m hen n it Is best alwis to hi f fi oi 0 gh hopper spice so that not 1 1 han ban t no 11 ards of the el clicks icks can e i it ouel cue time lachan bs change e |