Show ALFALFA FOR POULTRY YARDS one of best plants to furnish green food for chickens crowns are hard to kill out ac K BLINN colorado expert ment station alfalfa to is one of the best plants to furnish green food for chickens but ordinarily it soon boon kills out it if over pastured alfalfa crowns that have been cut off and plowed under and that have taken root again are much harder to kill out as many have found by repeatedly peat edly grubbing out the same stool that has taken root the second time such crowns seem to put out shoots from each piece of root that Is left in the ground it if the soil boll Is in favorable condition 11 those who desire to establish al alfa in their poultry yards can suca eed ed in this way by plowing or a ng under alfalfa crowns that have I 1 een near by early in the spring a the best time while the crowns crown 8 ar are 0 halll dormant the crowns should be vered four to six inches deep and e soil wet down rand and kept moist hd d the chickens kept off until the owns have become established X jilch ich will be much sooner booner than by alfa seeding angwill and will stand much arder ader pasture |