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dozen. Mr. Newell attributes his success to the fact that his chickens live 

 in two electric lighted coops, go to roost by electricity, and get up at the 

 beck of 100 candle power. 



"I figured the whole problem out in black and white," said Mr. Newell. 

 "I found that my chickens were not laying much in winter. They'd go 

 to roost earlier in the winter months and get up later. I figured they 

 didn't have sufficient daylight in which to eat the necessary amount of 



Plays Electric Light Joke on Chicks and They Lay for It 



food and to get the required amount of exercise for good laying. I 

 estimated they got about sixteen hours of daylight in midsummer and only 

 about seven hours in midwinter. I decided to strike an average of their 

 waking hours. 



Up at 6 a. m. 



"At a cost of about thirty dollars I installed a one hundred candle- 

 power tungsten lamp and a two candlepower incandescent lamp in one 

 chicken house and two sixty candlepower tungstens and a two candlepower 

 lamp in the other. These I connected with switches in the house. 



"As soon as the alarm clock goes off at six or a little after in the 

 morning I turn on the switch and the chickens get up, thinking it is 



