Show I 1 ALFALFA SEO SEED CROPS RAISED SISTA I 1 I 1 CE OF k in ili certain localities as ill in northern alontaga mon Alon tana bees tire are very y scarce bu but t til alfalfa aalf a will of often tell pro r duce good crops of seed without their aid A crop of alfalfa 61 falfa seed is never ineer obtained except when the flowers have ben been tripped which term describes the snapping back of a part of the tha flower in such a way as ta to deposit pollen on oil the sti stigma gnia production of seed usually results from this action bees ina search of honey or pollen trip koine of the fl flowers but there e are two other ways in which the t lle action may be performed in ili some cases the flower will trip itself automatically as it does in ill montana if the climatic f conditions are satisfactory or the flowers may bo be tripp tripped edle artificially by human agency of the three agences agencies that eliat may inay tripe tri p the alfalla alfalfa flower only the insect naturally carries the pollen f from roni flower to flower As pods forni form in artificially tripped flowers it is evident that flowers do not necessarily need pollen from others in order to become fertilized model ahsay warm arill weather lier interspersed eased with cool nights is it a condition that seems peculiarly favorable in aiding flowers to trip themselves when the lue weather cools off the flowers do not trip ro FO readily investigations have shown however that pollen brou bro glit tight from other flowers will produce more pods than does the flower i that is self fertilized thirty per P or cent of the flowers s fertilized with their own pollen produce pods while 40 46 per cent fertilized e d with pollen from other oilier plants produce pods in ili the former ease case the pods ancl encl contain on oil an all average of 14 seeds while ini fili the latter they contain 24 seeds |