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Show DOUBLE RUNS ARE REQUIRED Necessary to Keep Poultry Yards Sweet and Sanitary, Says Expert of Kansas College. It is necessary to have double runs to keep the poultry yards sweet and sanitary, according to N. L. Harris, superintendent of the Kansas State Agricultural college poultry farm. "One of the yards should be plowed in the early spring and seeded to oats," says Mr. Harris. "These oats will furnish fur-nish good succulent pastuijuntil the first of July. In this period the other lot should be plowed and Kafir, cane, or Sudan grass sown thickly. This will furnish the necessary green pasture from the time the oats are ripe until fall when the other lot may be re-plowed re-plowed and sown to wheat to furnish winter and early spring pasture." Some form of shade is quite necessary neces-sary to the best growth and health of poultry, Mr. Harris believes. If trees are not available ornamental castor beans planted around the fences are quite satisfactory. It is necessary to protect these from the birds until they are a foot or so high, after which they will rapidly grow out of reach of the poultry. Sunflowers are not satisfactory for planting in the poultry lot as they will not furnish the proper amount of shade. The poultry are fond of sunflowers sun-flowers when the plants are young, and will quickly devour them. |