102 A REVOLUTION IN EGG PRODUCTION 



Having succeeded, where others had failed, in discover- 

 ing the real reason for lovi^ egg production in fall and winter, 

 by well cared for flocks, the author felt a pardonable pride in 

 wishing the public to know the facts, and to be benefitted by 

 his discovery. 



Of course, an experiment of this kind could not escape 

 a certain amount of local publicity, because such a new event 

 as an "egg factory" running full blast after dark, could not 

 very well be hidden from the view of passers-by on the street 

 — either afoot, or in automobiles or other conveyances. 



Through some channel, of which the author has no knowl- 

 edge, the "Chicago Tribune" editorial staff was informed of 

 the fact that the author was using electric light in his poultry 

 houses ; and they called him up on the phone, at his place of 

 business, on January 4th, 1915, with a request for an inter- 

 view on the subject. 



Realizing that having started out to get information they 

 would succeed in getting what they wanted in some manner, 

 the interview was granted, and they sent a photographer out 

 to take a few pictures. 



On January 5th, 1915, the following pictures and write- 

 up appeared in the "Chicago Tribune." 



The pictures were taken by flash light, after dark, and 

 show the "egg factory" in actual operation. 



FOOLS CHICKENS; GETS MORE EGGS 



G. G. Newell Installs Electric Light in Coops and Hens Work 



Overtime. 



George G. Newell is an auditor. Figures and statistics and cliickens 

 are his hobbies. Efficiency is his watchword. 



Back of his residence in Congress Park there is an inclosure forty feet 

 square in which he keeps what he calls his "150 eg? machines." The 

 "machines" belong to the feathered tribe known as White Leghorns. He 

 expects and obtains eggs from these "machines" with the same regularity 

 and accuracy as he does figures from an adding machine. 



Gets 18,000 Eggs. 



He says he has obtained 18,000 eggs from his "machines" in the last 

 year, or an average of an egg every third day for each fowl, and expects 

 to bring this average up to an egg every other day for each hen during 

 1915. All the hens are laying now and he sells the eggs for 50 cents a 



