Show White bite Sweet Clover for Forage I Red clover recent Investigations ha have vo shown Is practically self sterile I that that Is la under the Influence of oC Its own pollen a very small number of seeds on a given plant will set In InI Inthis Inthis I this respect It differs from white I sweet clover which tests have havo demI demonstrated demonstrated dem dem- I will set nearly as man many I seeds under the Influence of Its own I pollen as It will with the pollen of another plant This makes the tho breeding breed- breed Ins ing of white sweet clover an much i more promising undertaking than the breeding of re red clover These facts have been brought out by recent recent recent re re- re- re cent experiments conducted by the United States Department of ot Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture ture In cooperation with Iowa State College The Federal departments department's Investigators plan to follow up these discoveries with the selection and breeding of or white sweet clover for increased forage and seed tion lion It was also found that sweet clover needs a great deal of ot moisture to mature the see seed properly This Is Isone isone isone one of the reasons why the second crop of sweet clover sometimes has hasa a better seed Beed yield than the first There being a smaller amount of I growth on the second crop the plants do not draw on the water supply supply supply sup sup- ply so strongly and there is more water left for the maturing of the seed |