Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1919 — ILLUMINATING POULTRY HOUSES [ARTICLE]

ILLUMINATING POULTRY HOUSES

During the past few years rapid advancement has been made in lighting poultry houses in the winter mouths. It has been found that bv turning on electric lights or bright light gasoline lamps, at twilight atid continuing the. tight until nine o’clock at night the egg production is materially increased. Most poultrymen who use this system also turn on lights at six or six-thirty on the winter mornings. Prof, F. G. Hare, of the division of poultry husbandry, Clemson college. 8. C„ recently returned from Cornell university, where he lectured at the Cornell summer course, reports that the experiments conducted at Cornell university Inst year went to prove that the best results were obtained by turning on the lights nt three o’clock in the morning and allowing the hens to go to -n>ost -ttt the trsmd time; However, this simply backs up the stat went made in California, where this system originated, that it is only necessary to increase the hours of daylight to summer conditions. If you wake up the birds very early, they should go to bed at dusk.