AivFali^a Studies. 
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Plat H-7—U. S. No. 9450, Turkestan, Trans-Caucasia, 6 plants. Failure. 
Plat H-8—U. S. No. 17792, Spain, 139 plants. Upright form like Arabian, 
hay and seed only fair. 
In all our previous tests the Turkestan alfalfa has proven the 
most desirable in type for hay. It will be noticed from the above 
report of nursery that one-half of the plats were sown with Turke¬ 
stan strains, yet the most leafy plants, and those producing the most 
seed, were not found in the Turkestan varieties. The second sea¬ 
son’s growth may reveal different records. Of the plats that pro¬ 
duced seed, and were of promising type for seed and hay, the fol¬ 
lowing selections were made, besides the individual selections of 
exceptional qualities: 
Plat A-4—Seed from 150 plants, fine, leafy stems, quite uniform seed pro¬ 
ducing, secured 11 ounces of clean seed. 
Plat E-8—From 50 plants, of heavy seed producing quality, secured 18 
ounces clean seed. 
Plat 'C-8—From ten choice plants secured 87 grams of clean seed, plants 
of short, jointed stems, thickly leaved and fairly set to seed. 
Plat D-7—Seed of ten plants of the Arabian type, 71 grams. 
Plat D-8—^^Seed of ten plants of the thick, fine leafed type, 70 grams. 
Plat F-2—Seed of ten plants of the short, dwarfed stems, 118 grams. 
The above six selections were made with a view of sowing 
increase plats in order to get seed in considerable amount, as these 
selections seemed so much superior to the common alfalfa. Besides 
this the following single plant selections were made, for their in- 
vidual merit. 
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