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Show Right Use of Electric Lights Will Help Eggs The proper use of electric lights In the poultry house will materially Increase winter egg production. Al (lie Nebraska station turning the lights on every morning during the winter months resulted In S:"i0 more eggs-from their flock of 00 hens. Where this Is done, however, it Is Important to have feed and water available for the poultry as soon as the lights are turned on. This can he taken care of the night before be-fore and the lights turned on automatically auto-matically with an alarm clock at four or five o'clock in the morning. The 'our months from November to February inclusive are the months In which artificial lighting returns the most profit Users of artificial ar-tificial lights find that it is desirable desir-able to place the lamp In such a way that the roosts will not be dark. |