104 A REVOLUTION IN EGG PRODUCTION 



daylight. The lights are turned off at eight or eighty thirty, when it is full 

 daylight and the neighbors' fowls are just arising. 



"When it begins to get dusk, along about four, my daughter Dorothy, 

 or my wife turns on the lights and they are kept going until nine at night, 

 when I turn all out except the two candlepower lamps. These give just 

 a sufficient amount of light to give the appearance of dusk, and the chick- 

 ens begin going to roost. I leave the small lamps lit all night, so that 

 if any of the chickens want to get up at night to eat they can do so. 

 Average Jumps from Twenty-six to Eighty-three. 



'Eleven days after the lights were installed the daily average jumped 

 from twenty-six eggs to eighty-three. During the moulting season under 

 the old custom, when most of the food was going to feathers instead of 

 eggs, I got only eleven eggs a day. Now I get fifty-two a day during 

 the moulting season. It is merely an experiment in efficiency, and I hope 

 to improve on it." 



"Chickens think," said Mr. Newell. "If they know they are going to 

 get plenty of food the next day they'll lay. By my method I keep them 

 thinking they are getting the same amount of daylight all the year around, 

 and I'm keeping them thinking all the time." 



This article was either copied, or a new article made up 

 from it, in the press in many papers throughout the United 

 States. A clipping sent the author from Dunkirk, New York, 

 had reproduced the pictures in the "Tribune" and as an insert 

 picture had the following: 



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The following was gi\en me by a friend as having been 

 taken from the "San Francisco Call :" 



"CRUELTY TO HENS IN DARKEST CHICAGO." 



"They Have to Get Up at Six O'clock in the Cold Winter Mornings. 



There is an ingenious gentleman in darkest Chicago who takes 

 about the meanest advantage of his hens that has come to our atten- 

 tion. Under the solar conditions obtaining in Chicago, midwinter 



