Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — ELECTRICITY AN AID TO CHICKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ELECTRICITY AN AID TO CHICKS

Not Only Assists In Warming Incubators, But Also Used for Warming Feed and Water. i <6 The old joke about the efficiency of electric lights In making hens lay egg-eactly twice as often by getting them to think that night is day,

keeps going the sounds and finding new hearers. Meanwhile electricity is proving a real aid to chicken raisers aside from its well-known application to incubators, namely, as a means for Vanning food and drink, says the Popular Electricity. It Is .easier to inclose a pair of wires so that no chicken’s claws can damage them than it is to arrange any sort of lamp or stove so that it will neither smoke nor upset under the ordinary conditions of the chicken farm. The amount of heat required to take the chill off either bran or water is quite small, and the result Is not only an increase in the rate of laying, but also a prevention of ailments that can be traced directly to the eating of frozen food. In either case the vessel holding the food or drink can be separable from the base containing the heating coll, and where only a part of the liquid is exposed, the heat can be

concentrated on this portion so as to keep the current used down to an almost nominal amount.

Getting Warm Feed.

Eleetric Chicken Food Heater.