20—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. January 9.1971
Across the
Editor's Desk
Lighting Up Profits
A recent issue of “Electricity
on the Farm” gave the follow
ing explanation of how proper
use of lighting can make a big
difference in profits
It was suppei time and Fred
Williams had just finished col
lecting eggs from his 10,000
hens As he left the poultry
house, he turned the lights off
Doing so may have cost him
$2,000.
_ Improper lighting can de
crease production by over a
dozen eggs per bird per year
Even at only 25 cents a dozen,
this doesn’t take long to add
up to a sizeable sum
The amount of light hens re
ceive has a great effect on egg
production rate egg size and
the total number of eggs each
hen will lay.
Di J V Shutze, of Colorado had reached 50 per cent
State Univeisity’s Poultry Proper lighting not only de-
Science Department, found that i ays the first egg until the pul
lightmg plays an important part i e t 1S mature, but it can also
in a poultry operation’s profits enable the pullets to reach flock
it can make a difference production level in a shelter
of as many as 16 eggs per hen time Therefore, if you are los
dunng a laying cycle in g money on small eggs be-
He ran 12 different lighting cause your pullets start laying
tests on white leghorn pullets when they were too young, con-
Pullets given light for 16 hoius trolled lighting may be your
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a day had a lower egg produc
tion rate than those receiving
moie light A group that started
on 22 hours of light with a
gradual decrease to 16 and then
a gradual increase back to 22
hours had a good increase in
egg production.
One of the best lighting sys
tems Dr Shutze studied starts
the pullets at 16 hours of light
with a slight decrease each day
until 9 hours are reached The
day after the pullets reach the
nine-hour level, they ai e abrupt
ly increased to a 16-hour level
and kept at this level for the
remainder of their laying cycle
Buds on this 16-houis-of-
hght-per-day schedule showed
the sharpest increase in produc
tion They were 168 days old
when they reached 10 per cent
production and ten days latei
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solution Hooking lights to a pi ices will likely offset part o
time clock will make sure your the yield reduction The situa
pullets are getting the right tion could have been worse, as
amount of light each day. Ivan related to Agri-News:
Check with your county “The 240 acres we planted in
agent, state college extension April were ahead of the blight
specialist or local power sup- y ou couldn’t compare the same
plier Any one of them will numbeis planted in April and
help you decide which lighting May Early planting saved pait
system best fits your set-up. 0 f our crop
Having the right lighting sys- “Most often in the past corn
tern will mean greater returns. plante( j j n April has produced
from your investment a better yield and was of better
quality than the same kind
planted in May
No?e e £=£
points out how the Southern ±leicts
Corn Blight hit many Mid
western farmeis While this
Lexington, 111, farmer isn’t at
all discouraged about the fu
ture, he is taking some steps to
minimize any possible damage
next yeai fi om the blight
“The corn looked wonderful
until the first week of August
Then it came I couldn’t be
lieve what was happening I
would walk in the fields each
day and watch it move It was
really moving fast.”
That’s how Ivan Gleeson, Lex
ington, 111, describes the inva
sion of the southern coin leaf
blight, which has cost him and
his biotheis Harvey and Paul at
least 25 per cent of then yield. 1
The Gleesons, who grow 1,800,
acres of corn, say they will be
lucky to get an overall yield (
average of 100 bu per acre
That’s considerably below their
normal yields, but higher corn
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The Gleesons used several overcome blight just like they
varieties of corn this year overcame other problems After
Theie is a world of difference losses from this
in how blight affected each bh f ht t we will be better off in
variety Some numbers that y ears to come We ve had Prob
have been their best yielding lems before and we’ve always
com have been huit the most come out ahead”
They don’t plan to drastically
change their program for next
year, but some new kinds of
corn will go into the ground,
Ivan explains;
“We will be seeking varieties
that are resistant to blight. They
will probably lower our yield,
but we can’t afford to take a
chance on the blight Varieties
hurt most by blight will not be
used any more.
“I think we will see seed
companies going back to hand
detasselmg. This year hand de
tasseled corn took the blight
remarkably well. Stalk quality
and yield was good.
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