Show LARGE ALFALFA SEED SEED YIELD 1 11 1 on one plant made exceptionally fine growth of leafy ste stems me soll soil coni cap delions important by P 11 BUN BLINN colorado collego college A fine alno alfalfa plant after running the gauntlet of a hundred thousand visitors many of whom examined the pods poda ato to seo if the tha seed abod had filled and being shipper three times acrons tho the state by a local freight or ox ex pros lirenz and then traveling over nearly all the railroads rall roada of at the state with tho the demonstration train yielded grams grama of cloan clean seed eced equivalent to 34 ounces of seed from the one plant tho plant was found in a field of battle alfalfa grown at the eipers ment station at rocky ford the field was sown bown in 1911 in twety twenty inch rows rowa tor for seed production tho the field wn was not irrigated during the tha year 1011 1911 and wai was left to grow aeed the season was favorable for seed becil yield aud and the hold field averaged less lesa than fifty pounds of seed aeed to the acre yet this thia bno plant in the midst of the tha field surrounded by thousands of plants under the samo same conditions which failed to produce seed satisfactorily facto rily made mada an exceptional except lonal growth of fine leafy sterna stems and set such auch an enormous yield of seed sixty grams grama of tho abed from this plant haye been used to seed a tenth acre plot for increase zt at rocky ford and also a row rov in tho the comparative nursery test that comprises other choice select selections ionti thirty grams of the eeik seed have bavo been sent to the station at fort collins coiling to toot out in that section of the state the work of sele selecting cing choice indi vidual plants to Is resulting in a decided improvement of the typo type of alfalfa not only for seed alone but fine quality and a large production ol 01 forage tho the question of seed peed production seems to depend on moro more care in selecting electing soil cond conditions conditto itlo s lid adapted apted to regulating moisture supply so as to make a slow dwarfed growth yet in suring mols moisture fure to set and iiii W the seed need |