Show scratching found not essential to fowls three flocks of rhode island reds and three white leghorns Leg horns borns at the university of illinois indicated that hens heng do as well when fed grain in boxes as w when hen they are obliged to scratch for it in deep litter this method has the advantage of 91 being much cleaner and more sanitary one lot of each breed was fed dry mash la in hoppers and scratch grain morning and night in straw litter A second lot received dry mash in hoppers but the grain was fed twice dally daily in shallow troughs for the third lot the scratch grain was ground and mixed with the mash and the whole ration self sel fed in hoppers no high records were made but the egg yields were not affected materially by the methods of feeding the test ran for 41 weeks the grain mixture was shelled corn 70 pounds and oats 30 pounds the mash was made up of 17 pounds each of ground corn ground oats wheat bran and flour 25 pounds of dried buttermilk 5 pounds of bone meal and 2 pounds of salt |