Show litter not desirable place for grain feed experimental I 1 work ot at several staf sta eions as well as the p practical experience of a large number ot of poultry keepers prove that hens do not need to hunt in the litter for their teed feed in order to lay well more and more people are feeding the whole and cracked grain to the poultry in troughs to keep it cleaner than it would be it if scat scattered tere d in the litter litter Is highly desirable in a poultry house during the time that the flock Is kept confined but its virtue virliie Is in keeping the feet cleaner the floor drier and more easily cleaned and the house warmer than when no litter Is used and not to furnish a place placa to hide the grain feed some grain will be dropped in the straw or chaff or shredded fodder or peat moss even evea though troughs are used and the liens hens will scratch for it but deliberately scattering the grain in the litter unless there Is no container available serves no useful purpose |