Fig. 50. Survival of the Hardiest. 



The Grimm stood the test. Common Montana alfalfa (to right) 

 winterkilled 78 per cent. Plots seeded at same time and in same way, 

 yjune 1914, and gave excellent yields in 1915. But the second winter ruined 

 the common Montana strain while the Grimm variety only six feet away 

 came through the very severe winter of 1915-16 without apparent injury 

 and yielded double the amount* of weed free hay. Photo taken June 1916. 



Fig. 51. Following Hard Winters Grimm Makes Rapid Growth. 

 Plots sown, June 1914. Photo taken April 1916. 



Note vigorous early spring growth of Grimm in comparison with the two 

 common strains on either side which were so weakened and badly winterkilled 

 by the open winter of 1915-16 that they have scarcely begun to grow. 



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