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Show Frost Bites Alfalfa Severe frosts of the past week and a half have worked a hardship hard-ship on the alfalfa of this locality. This is not the first time these conditions have prevailed in this and other intermountain localities and we learn in talking with those who have experienced like occasions and who have had to do anything to do with alfalfa which has been frost bitten to a considerable consid-erable extent, that the proper thing to do when the plant has been bit sufficiently to materially injure its growth, is to jump right in and cut the hay. You will get more than enough feed ; to pay ou for the cutting and ; your other crops will be good ; and you will still stand a show of getting three good crops from ' your hay kind this season. If your a i fa I fa is badly hurt by ; frost it would be well to take council from some one who has ' had experience of this kind be fore, and who has cut his hay as soon as the frosted conditions showed that the plant was ma terially damaged. The result ol leaving badly frosted all'alfc stand is that you have a thii brushy crop of hay the first cut ting which is not much of s yield and is poor feed. |