Am^Bcan Agriculturist, January 20,1923 
Lfights in the Poultry House 
M^s. F, W, Owen Tells How She Increased Egg Yields 
I HAD very ^od luck thig summer. 
By October 1st, I had 325 pullets 
and 85 yearling hens in my laying 
houses. Our farm lighting plant was 
installed in October and by November 
1st, was ready for use. At this time 
the pullets were five months old and 
part of the hens had molted but were 
not laying yet. The hens which had 
not molted were laying about a dozen 
eggs a day. The pullets were large in 
size and had had free range all sum¬ 
mer, so were strong and healthy, and 
with a little coaxing, ready for a good 
winter’s work. 
The lights were turned on November 
4. We got eight eggs from all of the 
flock that day. At the end of a week 
they had increased to 20 eggs a day. 
In just 20 days, on the 24th of the 
month, they laid 100 in a day. The 4th 
of December, just one month from light¬ 
ing, the number was 155 which jumped 
to 200 on the 8th. On the i9th, 222 
eggs were laid. About 30 pullets were 
too young to lay so y(>u see this is 
almost 60 per cent production. 
One point I notice is the regularity 
of the hen’s laying, the number of eggs 
now averaging about the same from 
day to day. I also notice that very 
few eggs are laid after 3 o’clock in the 
afternoon and not very many on the 
roosts as many of the hens will get on. 
the nests almost as soon as the lights 
are on in morning. If plenty of shells 
are kept before the hens, I have prac¬ 
tically no loss from soft shelled eggs 
so do not think I am forcing the hens 
too much. 
Feed and Care to Get Eggs 
As I have told of my results, I will 
now try to give a few suggestions as to 
how I feed and care for my flock to 
obtain eggs. The lights are all con¬ 
trolled from the house and are put on 
at 4:30 in the morning and as there is 
always feed left over, I do not feed until 
5 o’clock. Then I water and give about 
one quart of mixed grain to every 30 
or 40 hens. The mixed grain is com¬ 
posed of one bushel wheat, one bushel 
buckwheat, and one-half bushel heavy 
oats. At 9 o’clock I feed about the 
same amount of grain again, water, 
fill dry mash boxes and gather eggs. 
Oyster shells are always kept before 
the hens. The dry mash is mixed as 
follows; 200 pounds wheat bran, 200 
pound meal, 100 pound gluten, 100 
white middlings, 100 meat scrap. Every 
other batch I use only 100 pounds of 
bran as I do not 'vvant the hens to lose 
weight. At noon I give apples, potato 
parrings or whatever green feed I have, 
refill water dishes, gather eggs, etc. 
About 2:00 or 2:30 I give a warm 
mash of the dry feed mixed with water 
or sometimes cooked potato parrings. 
I am careful to feeding only what the 
hens clean up in 10 or 15 minutes. At 
dusk the lights are turned on again 
and at 5:30 the hens get their last feed 
for the day which consists of one-half 
cracked corn and one-half mixed grain. 
One quart of grain is fed for about 
every twelve or fifteen hens. As the 
floor is kept well littered with chaff 
and straw, quite a lot remains for the 
next day and the hens keep busy most 
of the time. The coops are kept clean 
and dry. Plenty of fresh air is ad¬ 
mitted through 2 feet by 4 feet open 
spaces, two or more to a coop. I am 
very careful to keep enough oyster 
shells in the hoppers so the hens will 
not be compelled to eat the very fine 
particles in the bottom. 
Range Restricted in Bad Weather 
Then hens are given free range when 
there is no snow on the ground. By 
feeding a large amount of grain at 
night the hens will go to roost even 
with the lights on and have plenty of 
feed to last well into the night. One- 
half or three-quarters of an hour after 
the hens are fed at night they will all 
be on the roosts and the lights can be 
turned off. One 50 watt bulb is suffi¬ 
cient for a coop 12 feet wide and up to 
24 feet in length. It should be placed 
nearer the front than the back of the 
coop so as to light the floor under the 
dropping boards. 
I have been in the poultry business 
for 15 years and ha.ve learned many 
lessons in the hard school of experience. 
I am the first one in this vicinity to 
install lights in my henhouse and I am 
well satisfied with their success as a 
means to greater winter egg produc¬ 
tion. I am sure that electricity will 
prove a great help to poultry keepers 
and sincerely hope that the readers 
,of American Agriculturist will gain help 
and encouragement from my sugges¬ 
tions and have a happy and properous 
New Year. —Mrs. Floyd W. Owen, 
Steuben County, N. Y. 
MADISON SQUARE POULTRY 
SHOW BREAKS RECORD 
The thirty-fourth annual occurence 
of this Premier event in the Poultry 
World takes place from January 24th, 
to January 2gth inclusive. Entries 
closed on the 3rd, with by far the larg¬ 
est number of exhibitors ever on record 
at this show. Every State in the Union 
is represented, either with poultry or 
pigeons, rabbits or cavies. Geography 
makes no difference in the minds of ex¬ 
hibitors, when it .comes to Madison 
Square Garden. Entries as far west 
as California and from almost every 
P*rovince of Canada, as well as a large 
entry from Lord Dewar, of London, 
England. 
One of the educational features of 
intra-state interest will be a judging 
contest composed of teams of students 
from the Agricultural Colleges of Con¬ 
necticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, 
New York, North Carolina and Penn¬ 
sylvania. Club teams of boys and girls 
will be entered also from Connecticut, 
Massachusetts, Mississippi and New 
Jersey. These judging contests will be 
held Friday morning, January 26th, at 
nine o’clock. 
Big Corps of Judges 
Judges of international reputation will 
handle the numerous classes. Some in¬ 
dication of the magnitude of their task 
will be appreciated when we observe 
that it takes these twenty-two exper¬ 
ienced men two full days to do their 
work. 
Keen interest centers this year in 
the competition for a special prize of 
$250 cash for the best exhibition pen 
in the show, a pen consisting of a male 
and four females. The “Tex Ricard” 
cup for the best display of Pit Games 
has brought out entries from several 
places in England. Mr. George McKee 
Bowman, of the Biltmore Hotel, is 
offering two cups, one for the foreign 
exhibitor winning most points in Ban¬ 
tams, and another for most points on 
Sussex. The Rufus Delafield Memorial 
Cup is offered for the best Buff Orping¬ 
ton Cockerel. 
Pekin Duck breeders will gather from 
all parts of the country with large ex¬ 
hibits for their National Club meeting 
in commemoration of this bein.g the 
' fiftieth year in which these ducks have 
been bred in this country. 
This Show will see the introduction 
of another new variety of poultry— 
the Chanticler. It marks the success¬ 
ful culmination of a series of experi¬ 
ments begun about fifteen years ago 
by a Trappist Monk, Brother Wilfrid 
by name, at the Canadian School of 
Agriculture in the Province of Quebec. 
PECULIAR TURKEY TROUBLE 
My turkey gobbler is affected with some 
thing that causes a swelling of the head and 
discharging from the nose. We thought it- 
was just a cold, but now the rest of the tur¬ 
keys are acting in the same mann,er. They 
dig their necks making them blood-red and 
sore. The tom’s head swells to such an ex¬ 
tent that his eyes are often almost closed. 
The birds do not seem to be failing.— (Welton 
T. Powell, St. Lawrence County, N. Y. 
A first thought seems to indicate 
some contagious throat trouble. Isola¬ 
tion of unaffected birds should come 
first. Apply a 10 per cent solution of 
argyrol to the head and throat, using 
a camel’s hair brush or feather. The 
following may be procured at your 
local pharmacy, and added to the drink¬ 
ing water every time the supply is re¬ 
newed: Tincture capsicum, Vz ounce, 
and Fennell water, 1 quart. One tea- 
spponful is sufficient in a pint of water. 
Thorough disinfection of the roosts and 
house should be taken into considera¬ 
tion, using some of the creosote or 
kerosene preparations. 
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WnlerEffgsf 
See to it that there is song and 
cackle, scratch and action, going on in 
your poultry yard. 
That’s 'when the eggs come. 
Feed 
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See them get busy. It gives hens pep. 
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Pan-a-ce-a has Quassia in it to make hens 
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A Pan-a-ce-a hen is always a hungry hen— 
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