ELECTRICITY'S USES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 20, 23 January 1914, Page 4

ELECTRICITY'S USES.

In these parts we know something of the uses of electricity for light ami power purposes, but judging by the following there are other uses to which ue have hardly attained. “Crowing Chickens by Electricity’’ was the subject of a lecture delivered by Mr Thorne Baker before the Koval Society of Arts in London last month. Mr Baker, who is an authority on the raising of poultry, told the astonished members that electric stimulation made chickens grow at twice the usual rate, thus doubling the output of the farm and halving the food bill. An “induction coil giving a spark of one inch, placed in the brooder” would provide the necessary amount of electricity and would not cost more than a few shillings a week to operate. “Chickens a few weeks old letch in the market as much as Is (id each,” the experimenter said. “The profitable stage can be reached in half the usual time by means of electricity. The vitality of the treated chicken is remarkable. When a finger is put to the netting the little bird, instead of running away, will rush up and peck vigorously.” Mr Baker added that during the treatment the chickens were so highly charged' with electricity that the person who touched them received a slight, shock.