Show PLAGE PLACE FOR HEN TO SCRATCH oat straw found to be as cheap as anything else in long run buckwheat Is too fattening there are a number of different materials which furnish an excellent place for the hepa hens to scratch in says a writer in the poultry journal leaves are probably the stuff most used by the small poultry men these are good if gathered when perfectly dry they must be put into the pens every few days because the poultry will ivill break them into dust by their continual Ec scratching I 1 find pat out straw about as aa cheap in the long run because it lasts quite ft a while and tarnishes some feed it if fed before threshing some of tny my neighbors have tried feeding buckwheat buch cheat as aa a scratching material and a feed combined buckwheat to Is too fattening and should be used only occasionally corn husks make an excellent scratching maternal shredded or out cut corn fodder doea desk very well if there Is not notly lK g else on hand band I 1 0 do o not dot like any form of meadow grass or swale for scratching material because it mats down too much when cut and not enough when not atit cut |