| Show t tr I r VL TRY r G ESSENTIAL FOR t OR HEN FLOCK I 1 iolet Rays Foes of Rickets and Other Ills aid In Inn rn rays ras s 's In direct sunshine hine n sl t ion ot or calcium lcJ 1 urn am and are of rickets and other Ills to vt li tr Is heir bile this n stor story to ninny lIry itry keepers it Is not generally own wn that not nor all ull sunlight fills bus equal I fine ue ne Hint In fact fuet winter sunshine hern In mutinies t It 1111 s has few or no let Iet rays raTS the factor furor that cures or vents events the rickets ls the practice of ot some nods Hocks ul ut their s ill ry men of shooing 1111 Hotline time of year ar Into bri bright hr sunshine t Hutt specialist t. iuli t th k I rick k I II n. Hutt poultry spec h hJ the le agricultural t extension lon service I ot of Minnesota says i iE Ire hp t University E 0 This hIS may be he of If value to stock kept I breeding but hut does Ilos not give ive the rhe ds notch much If any more of If tile the I jets ers factor than they were re getting c fide de the hen house Experiments xII l j f e shown flint in latitudes even en I 1 her south than Minnesota the rne t of ultra violet rays ot of the thes s tj lher st valuable wave t length is too ton mull winter to he of much importance j ter ler the first of ot March the value I the sunlight ht increases rup rapidly lII an- an April und null May 11 It hn tins hns a u rickets I t ishIn potency eight times I great as in January The he merits of ot glass tJ D L es s tune have been blen widely advertised td the thet f I t few years While labile it Is quite true truent I fit nt many of these will transmit when I rrt more ultra violet rays than win win- 1 v glass the fact remains that even eren IF P P. best lIest of them cannot transmit III ch h rays when there are arc none to toI I I Neither will the breeding I I ck k get Its full requirement of the doable factor if turned out outdoors on onI I If I brightest da days s 's In n February of this factor factory But an nn ample supply Ja y a prime essential If It good hatches batches to he obtained in the early spring De be only safe plan is to feed n a gooda good a fl of cod liver oil at nt the rate of ofa a pe per cent in the mash By y April 1 1 till J I which time the sun is again giving ghin II value for the money feeding of l e oIl may be he safely discontinued |
