Show BAMBOOZLE HENS BY USING LIGHTS lengthening day must bo done carefully to pay being notoriously simple minded ml aided the tha hen can readily dlly be bamboozled bamboozler by the tha use anso of electric lights into working 11 14 hours a day during the winter but the trick Is a good one only when it works rind the careless or ignorant user of lights can do hla his flock more damage than the extra eggs will pay for the theory of the thing Is that having more light the lien hen will eat cat more tood food which will enable her ber to lay jay more eggs A series of cautions for the user of lights in tile the poultry house la Is found on the ohio state poultry calendar they are as follows 1 grade and pen pullets according to age condition and laying qualities so co that each group way may be prope properly handled 2 excessive fall production makes it hard to keep the flock in heavy production during the winter 8 dont use lights to produce moro more than a 14 hour day daj excessive use of lights menus means overproduction follo followed by a slump 4 to avoid a n spring molt discontinue lights slowly in the spring 5 use lights on breeders bleeders bre eders only after january I 1 to 18 15 in order to help them back into production 0 dont crowd production over 00 per cent otherwise the flock will become thin and molt 7 be regular in management and the uee of lights 8 feed grain liberally when using lights 0 always have feed and water available cyal lable when lights are on 10 do riot not turn lights oft off too earl early y tn in the spring 11 do not stop feeding early and late in tile the day when lights are finally eliminated E early arly hatched pullets best for winter E agga egga ggs where eggs in winter ar are e w wanted anted the early hatched pullet Is without doubt the one to depend upon yearling liens hens and those older ones arit ar very rarely good producers during november and Decem december they are uncertain even in janu jan ary and february and really do not begin to lay jay well until march where the egg production fulls below 15 pez pei cent during the winter months one Is if not making much profit the age at which most pullets begin laying Is from six to seven mont months some lay at four anti and one half to five months and others not until eight or 01 nine months of age this means that if a BO 50 per cent egg yield Is wanted in november the pullets should be hatched during march or april may hatched pullets hulleta will lay a little but as a rule not 40 or more per cent dully vigor and vitality of parent stock weighty 0 successful hatching of eggs 1 in n incubators depends fully as much ort on tho ha vigor and vitality of the parent stock and the care of the eggs before being put into the incubator as upon the incubator itself successful hatches batches can be only when the he birds in the pens from which tile the eggs come are enjoying nn an abundant health poor hatches batches are probably caused more inore frequently by poor breeding stock than by poor incubators |