Show all hens show decided preference for wheat A recent test nt at one of the state experiment peri perl ment stations provided certain amounts ot various feeds for the hens and what they left was carefully weighed back in an effort to ses sei which foods the hens bans preferred naturally ally almost all the hens showed a decided preference tor for wheat which Is generally used as a poultry feed kaffir stood next in popularity followed by corn and cornmeal but oats bran and sunflower seeds did not prove very popular alfalfa leaves were also passed by pretty generally A similar test teat showed that the use usa of either beet beef scrap or sour milk makes the hens egg record at least twice as good as though she were fed no animal teed feed whatever and that sour milk Is slightly better than beet beef scrap for this purpose in addition to being cheaper and easier to got get on most farms |