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October 4, 191!) 
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Increased Laying from Artificial Lighting 
Some figures sent me by a friend of 
the results obtained by artificial light in 
his poultryhouse during the dark months 
are surprising. He writes : 
“About the first of December I wired 
my laying house for electric lights. This 
house is 20 ft. square. I placed one 100- 
watt in the center of the scratching part, 
and a very dim blue light over the roosts; 
each controlled by a switch. The object 
of the dim light was simply to outline the 
roosts after the main light was turned 
off, as this was turned off when the hens 
were bac. on the roosts. The main light 
was turned on at six o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing when scratch feed (was fed in the 
litter. This was turned off as soon as 
there was sufficient daylight for the hens 
to continue searching for their breakfast. 
iAt about half-past four in the afternoon 
Mrs. D. switched on the main light, and 
fed in the litter half of the evening feed. 
When I got home, about six o’clock, I fed 
the other half. This kept them busy until 
about half-past seven, when I turned off 
the main light and switched on the light 
over the roosts. The hens immediately 
left off their labors and started for the 
roosts, and by the time the eggs were col¬ 
lected they W’ere all tucked in, and the dim 
light turned off. Below are the results 
as compared with the previous Winter, 
when practically the same number of 
birds were kept: 
NOT LIGHTED 
Winter 1917-1918 
December .1,120 
.T nuary .1,431 
February .1,099 
March.2.9S6 
April. 3.139 
Total.10,375 
LIGHTED 
Winter 1918-1919 
December .1,420 
January . 2,905 
February .2,978 
March. 3.399 
April.3.213 
Total 
.13.975 
10,355 
Gain .3,020 
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$225.” 
IIow much did this gain cost? It’s a 
pertinnt question. The cost, at 12 cents 
per kilowatt hour, would be a half cent 
per hour. In the shortest days this would 
be about five and two-fifths cents per day, 
or less than the price of one egg. 
There were SO White Leghorns and 41 
White W.vandottes, a total of 121 birds, 
kept in that house, but the total of eggs 
la I includes the eggs by the breeding hens 
in another house not lighted. There were 
54 hens in that house, a total altogether 
of 175 birds. If this house had also been 
lighted the figures would probably show 
a still larger gain, but of course it would 
not have been wise to force the breeding 
birds to heavy laying in the Winter. 
For the benefit of those who are not 
situated, where they can have electric 
lights I would add that Prof. Banta of 
the Massachusetts Agricultural College 
|told my friend that they had obtained 
similar results with lanterns, but they 
| ha I tested only White Leghorns; he did 
not know what the results would be with 
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Pasture and Barn Notes 
Interest in Daily Work.— How often 
we hear the phrase, “the monotony of the 
d..iry farm.” How often we read that 
this boy or that hoy left the farm because 
he could not stand the monotony of milk- 
j ing cows twice a day. How often we hear 
that John Smith or Bill Jones has sold 
i his dairy because he would no longer be 
“tied to a cow’s tail.” All of which leads 
me to wonder if there isn’t something 
wrong with the point of view of a good 
I many farmers who keep cows, and who 
because they keep cows are called dairy¬ 
men. On our farm the dairy is full of 
interest for us every minute of the day 
and night. Who can describe the ex¬ 
pectancy with which we take the lantern 
and steal out to the barn before we go 
to bed to see whether old Millie has 
dropped a bull or a heifer; or the anxiety 
with which we wake up in the middle of 
the night at the distant bawl of a cow 
and wonder whether or not Queen has 
wormed herself through the spot in the 
fence that we patched up that afternoon, 
and led the bunch into the ripening corn¬ 
field 1 ; or the satisfaction with which we 
I weigh up Princess’ mess at night and find 
tbat we win our bet with the hired man 
V>v one-tenth of a pound. What matter 
it though the bet has been running back 
and forth all Summer, and be it for a 
cigar and we don’t smoke! The man who 
said t e work of a dairyman was monoto¬ 
nous failed to live the life of a dairyman; 
and that is why we are telling here the 
things as they happen from day to day 
in a plain ordinary working dairy herd, 
and how we meet our troubles and enjoy 
our successes. 
Keeping Fi* the Herd. —We are milk¬ 
ing 17 cows now. We have six dry ones 
I turned off by themselves in a separate 
'pasture, and a couple of lieifcrs that will 
be fresh along in December. We are also 
looking around for a couple more cows 
that will be fresh early in October, though 
they are verv hard to find. Our barn will 
only hold 24 milkers, so we w T ill have to 
sell some of the Spring cows to make 
room for the Fall cows we buy. Our idea 
is to get the herd up to practically its 
maximum milking strength as early in 
October as possible, so as to get in six 
full months of Winter dairying. After 
various experiments, we have hit upon 
the plan of keeping two breeds. Holsteins 
and Guernseys. At present, we have pure- 
breds and grades of each breed. This 
necessitates keeping two herd sires, but 
this is a problem that we have worked 
out in co-operation with our neighbors 
and about which we will tell you at some 
later time. 
►Some Mistakes. —Niger is one of our 
best cows. She is a grade Holstein, eight 
years old, nearly solid black in color, and 
will weigh better than 1.300. Last year 
she freshened September 20. after a 10 
weeks, rest. She came to her milk rather 
slowly, but by October 5 had reached 
45 lbs. This was her high mark, but ex¬ 
cept for an occasional day or so she did 
not fall below 40 lbs. until the following 
June. No record was made when she was 
bred and here we made our first mistake. 
Along about the middle of July, after 
having given over 11,000 lbs., she began 
to shrink rapidly, and this called our at¬ 
tention to the fact that she ought to be 
dried off. We got her dry by August 1, 
and she ran dry through that month on 
poor feed. Shortly after September 1 she 
freshened again, dropping a beautiful 
heifer calf which we sold to a neighbor 
for $6. She is in splendid condition, but 
to date we have been unable to get her 
above 12 lbs. to a milking. Surely this 
seems to be a demonstration that nature 
cannot be abused. We ai’e hoping by 
careful feeding to get her up to 40 lbs., 
hut it seems so hopeless that I am con¬ 
fident that the few hundred pounds of 
milk we got from her in July and the 
latter part of June is going to cost us 
two or three thousand this coming year, 
all because we did not keep track of the 
date we bred her and did not dry her off 
early enough. 
A Wounded Cow.< —Lassie is a pure¬ 
bred Guernsey heifer. She freshened in 
August at 25 months old, dropping a 
black and white heifer calf—not the re¬ 
sult of our own two breeds on one farm 
(for I am going to tell you later how we 
handle that problem), but because a 
neighbor didn’t build his line fence. The 
third day after she freshened, she got 
anxious to get back to the pasture from 
the barn, and crawled through a barb 
wire fence. One of the barbs ripped a 
teat the entire length so deep that the 
milk ran out. It certainly was a nasty 
wound, and for a time it looked as 
though we must lose the quarter, but we 
washed the cut out clean with hot salt 
and water, and dusted it with some pow¬ 
der we got from the local veterinarian. 
Gradually the cut is growing together, 
though the milk still runs through the 
side of the teat. We are afraid that this 
will continue during the lactation period, 
and that the hole will only heal up—if it 
does then—when the heifer is dry. 
Feeding Plans. —This year we began 
feeding corn, oats and peas about the first 
of July. We had three sowings and fol¬ 
lowed the oats and peas with millet, and 
now with green corn fodder. This feed 
lias kept the cows in good condition, and 
milking rather well, though we have fed 
it differently from ever before. In other 
years, when we began to feed green stuff, 
we fed it twice a day, and the result 
was that the cows stopped grazing alto¬ 
gether and hung around the barn. This 
year we reasoned out that if we fed the 
cows all they could possibly eat at night, 
and did not feed them in the morning, 
they would rest quietly near the barn 
during the night and go out hungry into 
the pasture in the morning, go to the 
hack side and graze what grass was there. 
For once a theory worked out in practice, 
and we are thoroughly committed to the 
idea of feeding green stuff on the once 
a day plan when there is pasturage 
enough to make it worth while to keep 
the cows, after it. We have started to 
fill our silos. We have our own rig and 
shall do the job without outside labor. 
There are two silos and 1(5 acres of corn. 
The corn is Luce’s Favorite, planted at 
the rate of about 9 to 10 qts. to the acre. 
It is cared very heavily, and most of the 
ears have reached the dough stage. It 
should make an excellent quality of silage. 
Perhaps we shall leave two or three acres 
to husk if the weather seems favorable. 
The Farm Bureau man had a variety test 
on one of the fields. The next time we 
will tell you about how the varieties 
showed up. dairyman. 
Paralysis 
Will you tell me what to do for a pig 
which has loet the use of its hind legs? 
He seems to eat all right and is all right 
otherwise. wap 
New York. 
A pig in that condition sometimes re¬ 
covers if physicked with Epsom salts, as 
constipation is a common cause of paraly¬ 
sis. If this does not prove true the pig 
should be slaughtered for meat if in good 
condition. 
