Show FOOLING THE 11 E miller if 11 someone had told grandfather that in this year thousands of honest hens helis would bo be tooled fooled into laying extra eggs by the use of bright lights in the henhouse ho we vve can call easily imagine lie tile the old oid gent lemans language I 1 yet tile the plan of lighting the lien hen 1 houses has now gone so far that probably halt half the coin commercial mercial poultry plants will light up tills this winter doubters may grumble and object but there is no such thing as slopping g a change in hi raim 11 in practice when experience shows that men have lave made it 11 pay nor is the hen fooled by these bright lights she does not lay more eggs because she thinks the days are longer it is a matter of food after illg long winter nights bights the cold morning finds the hen hell hungry to the point of star vat on nature has not provided lier ter with a bread basket large enough to cairy a days supply of food morning finds her with an all empty stomach she Is ia more concerned about filling her crop than sit she is about filling a crate of eggs who can call blame her the lights in the henhouse enable the lien hen to walk about and eat later at night and earlier in ill the morning that makes a shorter fast and a quicker recovery and that seems to be about all there is to it of course tills this means meana a little more feed but one extra egg during the winter months will pay tor for the extra iced feed tor for a full month there are still some things about tills this lighting proposition which must be worked out it Is a form of forcing process and pio probably bably does the lien hen no good as a breeder but with prices ef ct c eggs and nd of oti fec fead d the lien becomes morl more than ever a machine to be run at full speed during her short life |