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Show i Millard county chronicle Delta, Utah, Thurs., July 27,1950 Mr. and Mrs. Kendall Twitchell attneded funeral services for Wil-liam P. Brunson in Fillmore Tues-day. Mr. Brunson was an uncle of Mrs. Twitchell. Bees Are Factors In Alfalfa Seed Production Remembering that tripping is es- sential for pod development Poll-ination and Fertilization; Pollin-ation is actually the transfer of pollen from the Anthers ( male part ) to the Stigma (female If pollen from part). another alfalfa plant (known as "foreign pollen") comes in contact with the stigma, both the flower's own pollen and the foreign pollen wil germinate, but the germ tubes from the for-eign pollen usually get to the ov- ule first, producing cross-fertiliz-seed. If no foreign pollen is present tnppmg can be induced by excess-ive heat and is favored by low humidity. The question: To What extent does tripping occur spon-taneously in nature? This cannot be accurately answered. However, it is certain that some spontan- eous tripping does occur. A few Plants in a population will trip automatically; some are difficult to trip. The population varies be- tween these two limits - - it is believed that the percent of the population exhibiting will be proportional to the envir-onmental conditions especially tern perature and humidity. Unfortunately, spontaneous trip-ping is subject to the limitations of and so is actu-ally a detriment to the crop. Fur-thermore, temperatures high en-ough to case appreciable spontan- eous tripping would probably be injurious to the plant under field conditions. Even slight wilting, cau ses many flowers to drop. Never-theless, these weather conditions are important in their effect on insect activity and its benefits. In factory a machine used for mech-anical tripping would have to cov-er the field several times durng flowerng without excessive dam-age to the plants and at the same time trip and cross-pollina- a high percentage of the flowers. This ap-pears to be an engineering imposs-ibility. Material taken from Circular No. 125 of Ut. Ag. Experiment Station at Logan. "Tripping and by Insects'" to be discussed next week. the first place, bees fly best when the weather is dry and warm. In the second place, since the percent age of flowers tripped by nectar-collectin- g honey bees is variable, it would seem logical to suppose that their efficiency would be gVea ter under the warm, dry conditions which favor automatic tripping 4. HUMIDITY: Weather con-ditions of the West are generally more favorabe for alfalfa seed production than are those of the Midwest, East or South. Conditions associated with the lower rainfall ( fertilization with the flower's own pollen) will re- sult to a limited extent. Only 36.6 percent of the (or "selfed" flowers on the average formed pods compared to 60 per- cent of the crossed flowers. also increases the num ber of seeds per pod. The percent of flowers forming seed pods when they are all trip-ped and crossed 47 to 78 percent') may be considered the upper limit of the plant's ability to profit from pollination. Under natural condit-ions an average of only 27 percent of the flowers form seed pods. Sin-ce most of the flowers tripped un-der natural conditions are this low percentage ap-pears to result from failure of many of the flowers to be tripped. It is then obvious that Alfalfa Must be Tripped and Cross Pollin-ated in order to set an appreciable amount of seed. Methods of Obtaining Pollination Methods used in obtaining poll-ination incude - Wind, Rain, Heat, and Humidity, also Mechanical Tripping and tripping and by insects. 1. WIND: Investigators have concluded that wind plays a min-or role in tripping. Limited trip-ping will occur if the plants are whipped against each other or in the ground. The drying effect of the wind may also contribute to conditions favorable for automatic tripping. However, since Alfalfa pol len is not adapted to air trans-portation and the flowers are not adapted to receive pollen from the air, it is inconceivable that tripping caused by wind could re-sult in much 2. RAIN: Raid trips some flow-ers but the subsequent pod set, is low. An average of 8.3 percent tripping by rain was observed by investigators. 3. HEAT & HUMIDITY: Under laboratory conditions automatic turn numiciuy or tne West are: (1) More days of good flying weather for bees, (2) Increased nectar flow during clear weather. (3) Theoret-ically greater likelihood of trip-ping by nectar-collectin- g bees. 5. MECHANICAL TRIPPING: No method of tripping flowers mech-anically with resulting increase of seed has been devised and exper-imentally tested. Eleven methods were tested by Silversides and Ol-son, such as harrowing and pulling a wire over the plants, this type of tripping not only damages the plants, but is also subject to the limitations of selfing. To be satis- - Chatter Box pear Suzy, Perkins, local housewife r ma bicycling fan, has set a new an in women's sleeping gar-b- V having them knee length f ineed around the bottom. It tike hold here, and will cer-SS- v do o if the enthusiasts fol- - Velda's footsteps. lmt seems that the other night ," couldn't wake Sherm to go off the water in the . turn l'u'h "o she had to undertake ,t chore herself. It was about 3 so she donned a bathrobe Lr her nightgown and took off. tl that she had to walk some STnr.e she figured it would be and faster if she rode a S She climbed aboard and was merrily tootling along the side-Il- k when the going got rather rticult. She figured the the bike Seeded a good oiling and tried to but it became even more go on, difficult. It got so she couldn't go any-- r more so she tried to dismount I mm the bike but something was wrong and she was held firmly to the seat. Looking down she disc-overed that her nightgown and bathrobe were caught in the gears and the harder she tried to get loose the tighter the gears pulled so that she was finally on her kr,ees trying to get free. At this hour of the morning very few people are moving about and she had no help at hand. She won (jered what Patriarch C. R. would think when he heard one of his daughters had taken to bicycle riding in the early morning clad in only night gown and robe. She aiso wondered what Sherm would think when he got up to no breakf-ast as his wife was still in the clutches of the gears and sinking deeper all the time just like quicks-and. How she got free is still an uns-olved mystery , but she did as Sherm got his breakfast and on Ann he hasn't been complain ing about having to sleep with his wife and bicycle. So she must have freed herself and turned the water off as she originally set out to do. I shudde rto think what state the nation would be in today had Paul Revere got entangled with a bicycle when he started on his famous ride. Also I shudder to think what state the nation is in today period. Quetta Ellis walked home from a car ride Sunday and she says it is the first time she has had to do that for nigh on to 25 years. And it was quite a walk. It seems she and Joe decided to motor about the countryside enjoying the sights and breathing the invigorating desert air. They went out on the west bench to-ward the Hot Springs and saw all the sights out there and then ate a lunch and started home. As they approached the project they saw the smooth looking mud flat that really invites one to give it a whirl, as they are smoother than the road and do save a lot of miles in case you make it acr-oss one. So they took one of these flats to save a little time and get a thrill from the smooth ride. But like Velda, they hadn't gone very far before the going got tough. And soon they found that their car was floating easily in a sea of mud with nothing sticking above the goo but the radiator ornament, j A survey of their predicament showed that it was about useless to try and get out by themselves, and without the aid of a sky hook. So they figured they had just as ell walk back to civilization, or as close to that state as we of 'Nt Millard come. Joe always stays in good shape so he lead off with Quetta bringing up the 'ear. He took a direct course which went over flat and brush alike in 'the journey. When they came to any brush Quetta would hop it o as to not tear her stocking. Je says she went in a regular raience, one, two, hop, one, two, ee, hop, one, hop, two, hop, ee, hop, hop, hop,. As they came closer and closer to the fringes of ow flat she was forgetting some 01 the hops as well as her stock-ing- s and was each feeble and more ieeble effort she finally gave up irely and just waded through brush and debris one meets hen out enjoying nature. Her stockings were now shreds !, ,s.he had lost 36 square inches Hide from her shins and feet ' me was tired-- said nat je I I .i lead and Quetta brought ;! rear' wel1 fey this time not iy had she forgotten to hop, for fm ! r stockings but she also "'got to bring up her rear and that "raeged too. But all bad things come to an end and after 15 miles of hiking they were back to the first house, full of desert air, sunshine but not full of vigor and vim. Joe took it all in his stride but Quetta is still suffering from the effects. She not only has her usual spring to her walk, but unless she watches her self carefully she is liable to add an extra hop or two as she goes about the store. Rube Turner, local retired farm-er and former baseball fan, is sup-porting a knob on his head the size of a grapefruit which he claims he got from watching a baseball' game He says he wishes they would strap the ball bats to the batters in the future so that in the batter's excitement of hitting a ball he wouldn't toss it into the air, but would have to carry it to first base to be untied there by the umpire. Somebody, claims Rube, bopped a ball, tossed his bat in the air and bopped Rube all in one op-- , eration at the ball game in Hinck-- 1 ley on the 24th. At least he has the knot on his head to prove his statement, but the players re-port no broken bats so I am not so sure Rube got smacked that way. Rube says-tha- t if the players don't stop this practice he is going to start a movement to have the players furnish the spectators with hard hats when they go to a game and then they can toss their bats at random and at whom they wish. Ab Reid has been to Sun Valley and when questioned as to what he was doing in Sun Valley, quoth, our Mr. Reid, mayor of Abraham, and points west "When I was con-scious I was sitting up." I was very disappointed in the grand entry at Hinckley the other night when they barred Hon Crop-per and his pint size pony. Hon says that not only did they bar him from the GE but also chuck-ed him off the town board there for bringing a bad name to Hinck-ley as being cruel to animals. It just doesn't seem right. Toots. Hinckley- - Mrs. rfcrrriet Soendlove - Mr. and Mrs. Reed Stewart of Provo and Miss Joy Stewart of Cedar City, spent Sunday .and Mon day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Stewart. Vidella Webb Ingraham and fam ily of Salt Lake City and Mr. and Mrs. O'Dell Webb and family were Hinckley visitors ove rthe holiday season. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crafts had at their home fo rthe holiday week end their daughter, Carol, from Salt Lake City. At the home of Mrs. Rachel Spor were sister Esther Knight and her brother, Chester Knight, of Salt Lake City for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Rulon T. Hinck-ley and two daughters, Ella Rose and Lynna were here to celebrate the 24th of July with friends in Hinckley. gave a talk about the camp. Boy Scouts, who accompanied the boy scout trip then gave, a talk about the camp. Boy Scouts to give talks were Don Morris, Merlin Theobald, Phil Smith, and Howard Johnson. The choir then sang, "Proud, Yes, of Our Home in the Moun-tains," and Daryl Cropper offered the benediction. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bishop have returned home after a trip to Mem-phis, Tenn., where Mrs. Bishop has been since May and where Mr. Bishop went for a short visit and brought her and the family home. Mr. and Mrs. John Ed Wright have returned home after a trip to California and Nevada where they visited their children there, after having spent a while in Pro-vo and Salt Lake City prior to their trip. Mrs. William Stapley has gone to Salt Lake City to visit there for awhile. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ekins return-ed last week from a two weeks tour in Canada and surrounding territory. Also" returned from Canada are Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Allred and children, Mona, Douglas and Mari-lyn, who have been visiting there From Bountiful came Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Robins and their fam-ily, who weer the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Robison, Berniece Hepworth and Thola Hepworth and also the former Rae Hepworth,' and family spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Hepworth. At the home of Emma Spendlove were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Spend-love, who called here on a return trip through the northwest. Mrs. Spendlove returned to Salt Lake City with them to visit there and in Ogden. Mr. Dell Shurtliff spent four days of this week in Salt Lake City at the home of his parents there. Mr. and Mrs. Dee Wright and Mr. and Mrs. Barney Hall and family were at the Ivan Wright home as guests on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. David Stevens were visited on Sunday and Monday by their daughter and family of Salt Lake City. Sunday evening services in Hin-ckley were given by the Boy Scouts who recently returned from Valley Forge. The choir sang, Utah We Love Thee and Nell Swensen gave the opening prayer and the choir then sang In Memory of the Crucified. Brother Glen Seegmiller, who accompanied the scouts then Talbot Family The family of Mrs. Clara E. Tal-bot held a family reunion on July 15,1950 in Oak City canyon. A program was held at ten with entertainment furnished by mem-bers from each family. A business meeting was held to elect new officers for the coming year. They were as follows: Reed Talbot, president; Basil Talbot, vice president; LeevTalbot, secre-tary and reporter. Lunch was served at noon. A ball game was played in the after noon, with those not playing visit-ing. Mrs. Talbot is the mother of 13 children, 11 of whom are still liv-ing. She has 52 grandchildren and 9 There were 61 present, with two visitors. One grandson is serving on a Swedish mission at present. Fred Gavin and Reed Walker returned to Delta last week from a deep sea fishing expedition in California. It was Fred's first ex-perience fishing in the ocean, and he landed an albacore, one of the fastest of fish. Reports have it that the fish weighed 20Vi pounds when pulle dout of the water, and since it got to Delta it weighed 100 pounds, but that is not Fred's story. KASgfFlND IT WITH OUR wANT ADS "SHALL WE LET THEM RUIN OUR NATIONAL PARKS" (Article appearing in July 22, S. E. Post) If our present congressional representatives had been looking after Utah's interests would this have happened? WHY ARE WE IN THIS UNFAVORABLE POSITION? WHO PUT US THERE? It's TIME for SOMEONE to REPRESENT UTAH ELECT PRESTON L. JONES Congressman 1st district Paid Political Adv. by E. H. 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Y, thou-- 9$$:&Jr sands thrill to the sparkling 3 f "tenniS at 'tS beSt"' llPl ffe$JL Hill and Hill will not give JlL you the serve of a tennis m't d champion, but it will treat fjL ,YS- you to the pleasure of 'i'i-i- W;V WHISKEY AT ITS BEST ttLdihkch 81 nflnflU Si? PHONAL DISTILLERS PRODUOS CORPMWJ. ' 651 GRA1N Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Butler, of Pocatello, Idaho, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Roger Walker over the weekend. Mrs. Butler is a sister of Mrs. Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Gardner and small son left Delta Wednes-day to return to Pocatello, after a week's visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clair Gardner. Royal Gardner went with them for a visit of two weeks, and Chloe Gard ner accompanied them as far as Salt Lake City, where she will make a short visit. |