A CURIOUS EXPERIMENT
FOWLS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT
< Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) LONDON, October 8.
A poultry-farmer named William Cook is experimenting with six thousand Orpington hens, using electrically lighted hen houses in the early evening and morning, and so artificially lengthening the hen's day. The output ,of eggs has increased ' from thirty to "forty per cent, while the growth ,of the young chickens in winter is accelerated one third.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 October 1913, Page 5
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70A CURIOUS EXPERIMENT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 October 1913, Page 5
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