Show amaida for the fouls alfalfa should be raised by everyone every one for for it is superior to other grasses for this use the laying hens bens prefer it to lo either cither led or white glover clover aud and it fit alio fowl as aa no other k kind nd of green food cau can when it is ie cut oil off it grows alo rapi rapidly ily and becomes thicker supplying ati all almost inexhaustible amount of gi cen food fur the birds nothing but tile purest seeds should lie JQ used and good ground agn gi en to it light handy bandy soil is good fur for it and it must be protected from the weeds when young after it gets a good goell start it grows so thickly that other plants ai are a crowded out of the soil boil tile the seeds should bl too bo planted in april and in early june it can bo be cut off for the tha chickens it will continue cou to grow luau luxuriantly ali all through the surn summer mer aunie annie C I 1 webster in american cultivator |