Show WHERE HENS PREFER TO LAY like the grouse she naturally seeks spot where she cannot be sur from the rear L A made an experiment with his fowls to ascertain their arence for a place in which to lay and found that more hens chose to lay in an open box in a corner not far from a window and three feet from the ground than in anything darker high er lower or differently constructed bays a writer in an exchange one hen out of forty one left all the boxes and stole her nest in a thicket an other selected a barrel on its side at the back of the house the rest went tor the greater part into corner bobea or corners of the chicken louse without boxes he says I 1 think th explanation of this corner idea Is simple the wild hen aike the grouse naturally seeks a spot where she canno be surprised from the rear and the habit sticks to lier no matter how civilized anything she can go into and then face round with an assurance of safety on all sides except in front seems desirable to her going still farther into natural functions tho hen evidently wishes to be able to leave her nest with a dash for the open over the head of a formidable assailant if neo eary thereby tempt ing it to give chase and drawing it away from the eggs so the net should be at least a three sided affair and having a top Is no disadvantage the entrance should be in front I 1 deny the value of making a rear dark alleys to the nests as Is often planned tor this means added labor expense and trouble since another opening in front Is necessary for human access t the nest |