Show ALFALFA TO BE GIVEN TRIAL IN TN COLORADO Hardigan alfalfa will be given r. r chance to show its merits in resisting resisting resist resist- ing crown rot in Colorado For many years alfalfa fields in that thai state have hae been infested with crown ro rot and tit it is said to have reached the stage tage whereby many fields are threatened to die lio out entirely Last week Paul Brigham of or l I Myton Myton My- My ton received a letter from rom the Colorado Coo Coo- rado Agricultural college requesting of Hardigan Har Tar that he send them a sample digan seed to be experimented as to its resisting qualities against the above disease Hardigan was developed by hj Pro Sprague of the Michigan Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural tural college Crown rot and spotted leaf is said to have caused caused- considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able loss to farmers Carmels in Michigan an anand and it was with the intention of stopping this loss that Prof Sprague developed the strain known as Hardigan which is said to have successfully sue suc cess fully resisted both the above diseases die dis eases in that state n |