Show grain fed in hoppers brought good results in an experiment at the dominion experimental farm agassiz B 0 C in which three lots of SO 30 birds each were used feeding the scratch grain to in hoppers gave rather better results than feeding in the utter litter the nor west farmer reports the pen fed from hoppers showed a profit over cost of feed of per bird while the one in which the grain was fed in litter in the usual way showed a profit of per bird the experience of john dykes well known poultry wan of lethbridge bears out the results at agassiz ue he keeps hard grain before his birds all the time finds that they lay as well or better than where it Is thrown in utter litter arid and do not become fat from overeating mr air dykes observation Is that only plump well fleshed birds lay and that working off the flesh by keeping them digging into litter Is not conducive to a condition where maximum laying results may be had bad |