Show POULTRY PUSH LAYING HEN FOR FIVE MONTHS t Five months per pcr year Is enough In which to push lions liens Into extra laying by extending the fee feeding hours through the use of lights The rhe North Carolina experiment taboo station has hns just completed complete Its second year three test with laying hens and s that the period perIo between November No 1 and April 1 Is the period to use lights For the remainder c G the year the birds should be allowed to feed teed dur durIng durIng Ing the normal daylight ht Beginning with the pullet year we have subjected hens to 30 36 com ecu live Ii months of 14 13 fee feeding hours per tiny day securing the extra hours by u usIng us I I Ing electric lights sa says s 's Dr B B. F hea head of the poultry department depart depart- ment at nt state college post past year marl marked d the completion of the second such test Our results show v condo chely el thai a hen must have hu a 11 res period tad between each ench year rent of ot sure to the extra hours This Is needed thai thul she might replenish her liei depleted stores of minerals and vi vl It Il Is not wise to subject a u ahen ahen I hen to the extra fee feeding Hours for more than live O months of the yea ea a nn and the time between November No 1 and April J l is ended Doctor Kaupp l an and hi Ills his associates have e found that a su sudden en reduction of the fee feeding ing hours tours will be accompanied accompanied by premature molting nn and that regular lighting will always give poor results in n securing extra estra e eggs gs |