American Agriculturist, December 13, 1924 
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The Lighted Henhouse 
• How We Manage It for Best Results 
43y L. H. HISCOCK 
T HE use of illumin¬ 
ation in the poul¬ 
try house has become so universal in 
adoption that it seems a subject almost 
worn out. The dark days of fall arrive, 
we house our pullets, we give them light, 
we take up our eggs,—in short, one could 
go on just as if assembling an automobile, 
one mechanical part after another. Then 
one day there is a loud crash, bang! and 
our machine is badly broken. 
This is not a blind proposition. Illum¬ 
ination is a great factor piecing out the 
weakness of a hen’s physical make-up. 
Where she falls down and suffers because 
darkness prevents, artificial light comes 
to her rescue. If she is fed on these dark 
fall afternoons she is on the perch at five 
o’clock and she cannot eat again before 
seven in the morning. In other words 
she must pack her crop so full that it will 
nourish her body for a period of not less 
than fourteen hours. Physically, this is 
impossible. Her crop cannot hold this 
much feed, and as a result she uses it up 
during the course of the long winter 
night and then draws heavily upon her 
fat and bodily reserve to carry her until 
morning. Because she soon goes under 
weight from malnutrition, she cannot 
aroduce eggs. 
Why the Hens “Break” 
Here then is a brief explanation of why 
the use of light has become so popular. 
The trouble docs not, however, start 
from this source. It is not in the fall that 
we get into trouble but rather from now 
on. Pullets respond so well to electric 
light there is a great temptation to make 
the response even greater. It is just this 
desire to push the pullet or hen that so 
often undoes the good that illumination 
really ought to do. In other words, if 
the light is increased beyond a certain 
limit, the birds crack, shut down on their 
production, and very often, go into var¬ 
ious degrees of moult. Birds will stand 
fourteen hours as a working day, that is 
fourteen hours of combined light and 
natural day light. If more tbau that is 
used, it takes an exceptional poultryman 
to avoid trouble. Likewise, the longer 
the day is the greater is the tendency for 
a bird to lay herself out. 
To explain a little further. A pullet 
or a hen is capable of laying about so 
many eggs a year, according to her breed 
birds that deserve 
special attention; im¬ 
mature pullets and hens. Too much 
illumination will stunt pullets that are 
not well developed. It is better to keep 
the lights off from them entirely, or else 
limit them to about one hour of light. 
From personal experience here this fall 
this little lighting seemed to be a dis¬ 
tinct advantage in aiding the develop¬ 
ment and growth of late birds. Rather 
than give pullets of this class too much 
of a day, however, they might a good 
deal better be left to themselves. 
Moulters Need No Light 
As for the hens when they moult, it is 
better to leave them without light. A 
moulting bird is in poor physical condi¬ 
tion. She is not sick, yet she is certainly 
below par. She needs plenty of feed; not 
a stimulating egg mash which tends to 
push her beyond her strength but a mash 
relieved of some of its high protein con¬ 
tent. Feeding a large amount of grain 
will also help, especially late in the after¬ 
noon before she goes to roost. As her 
feathers begin to come in she will pick up 
physically, and her appetite will in¬ 
crease. A little light at this time will 
help because it will give her a chance to 
consume a greater amount of feed and 
thus build up her body. A half hour at 
first is sufficient, and this may be in¬ 
creased to an hour and a half as she gradu¬ 
ally goes in to a full laying condition. 
Too much light will make old birds crack 
very easily. It will also put so much 
strain on the birds that poor hatching 
will often result. 
Experimenting With V/inter 
Layers 
Mrs. W. H. Swofe 
D URING the past I have raised many 
kinds of chickens, and I have also fed 
many kinds of feed in the hope of getting 
better results. I am sure my efforts along 
this line have not been lost for I have 
found the right type of winter layers that 
fit our needs and the feeding problem has 
also been solved satisfactorily. 
In experimenting with 4,he various 
breeds, I have found that the Brown 
Leghorns are the heartiest and best 
layers among them all. The White 
a. . Leghorn is a close second when it comes to 
If she is urged by some stimulation Lying but they lack that fiery Leghorn 
such as an extra long working day, she disposition which is a natural trait with 
will lay many more eggs during the fall Leghorns. I remember when I was a gir , 
and winter, there w ill be no heavy lay- we had the Black Leghorns and t ey were 
fug during the spring months, and by always the best layers and were air y 
summer she will have produced accord- large, too, but my recent experiment wi i 
ing to her ability and will stop early. She 
might even do this on a fourteen hour day. 
If she was given more light she would 
probably go all to pieces physically be¬ 
fore spring arrived or before she had 
layed her full quota of eggs. 
Let Good Enough Alone 
For best results a working day of 
twelve or thirteen hours is sufficient. If 
your birds are laying steadily at twelve 
hours and the percent of production is 
good, let them go at that. Personally, 
birds under illumination are better off 
this breed proves to me beyond all doubt 
that the Black Leghorn is a fowl of the 
past. One disadvantage about the Leg¬ 
horn is the fact that they are not a 
profitable table fowl so far as the meat 
problem is concerned, but the meat of a 
Leghorn is delicious and we kill several of 
them at a time when wanted for home or 
table use. The advantages to be de¬ 
rived from tbe Leghorn variety is due to 
the fact that they lay when all other 
varieties do not lay. Leghorns, there¬ 
fore, become a profitable fowl to keep, for 
they lead the world in egg yields. A dozen 
doing a production from forty to fifty of my winter layers will keep our wants 
per cent than they are ranging up around supplied and the balance of the egg yield 
seventy. A cold snap, an accident with from the flock can be marketed and at 
your lights, and there is apt to be a ter- good prices. 
rifle set-back because the birds are going After summing up in the way of feeding, 
at such high speed. 
Where the supply or source of illumina¬ 
tion is limited, i.e., where storage bat¬ 
teries are used, the night lunch idea gives 
very satisfactory results. This plan per¬ 
mits the birds to go to bed at dusk. At 
I find that the scratch ration is the best 
for Leghorns, one half wheat and one 
half cracked corn, which I feed in a deep 
litter of leaves and straw. Occasionally 
during the winter when it is very cold 
and for a change, I feed a dry mash. The 
eight or eight-thirty the lights are lighted hens do relish this change in early to mid- 
and the birds given an extra feeding of winter. After that for a change they are 
grain. Some use the light for half an fed any green feed available, sometimes a 
hour, others for an hour. With either wet mash (not too wet) moistened with 
length of time the plan seems to give good skim milk or water. The hens do like 
results. The birds give a good egg yield, this change in feed but I do not feed it 
and from one report I have, apparently often for it is conducive Ito laziness on the 
stand up better when it comes to late part of the flock and that will not produce 
summer and fall egg production. eggs which to us is the important thing 
In conclusion there are two classes of during the winter. 
KEEPS Hens LAYING 
Winter 
A Glass Cloth covered scratch shed gives 
chickens balmy June weather conditions 
indoors tlurrnf’ zero months. Hens lay more 
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GLASS CLOTH ia extensively used 
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B9 well as storm doors and win¬ 
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winter, temporary green¬ 
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prices—single yd. 60c: 3 yds. 
at 42c; 10 yd3. at 23c; 60 yds. 
et 36c; ICO yds. at 33e. per yd. 
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Dept. 441 S3 laden, Nebraska 
GS YOU THIS 
WINTER OUTFIT 
Men’s sheepskin lined coat, valin 
$14. Waterproof Rubber Hip 
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. . Our price $12.50 for both ami 
a pair of genuine sheepskin mceca- 
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, Do’ts. Bas a big beaver sheepskin 
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chest. Sizes 48 inch to 52 inch, 
chest. $11. 
Here is a btg bargain tn waterproof 
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Value 85. Our price $2.50 a pair if 
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