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perennial plant adapted to cultivation in a 
cold climate. 
pollination. 
The branching leafy stems of alsike 
clover are from one to three feet long, 
erect or ascending, and rooting at the 
nodes like white clover. The small fra- 
aceessible to short-tongued insects. As the 
individual flowers are small only the head 
of the honeybee rests on the flower, from 
which it is sucking nectar, and comes in 
contact with the pollen. Few honey plants 
yield nectar in larger quantities. 
In relation to the pollination of alsike 
Dr. Ernest Kohn of Grover Hill, Ohio, 
Alsike clover. 
grant flowers are in heads and at first' point 
upward and are pink or reddish; but after 
pollination they bend downward and turn 
brown (see figure). The mechanism of the 
flower is the same as that of white clover. 
(See White Clover.) The nectar is se¬ 
creted inside of the staminate tube, and is 
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offers some remarkable testimony showing 
the value of bees: 
In the spring of 1918, while considering 
the location of an outyard, a farmer asked 
me to place some bees in his 40-acre alsike 
held. He had a relative who told him 
of the increase in yield due to the proximi¬ 
ty of bees- I placed 75 three-pound pack- 
