Bonus
1. The eight parental clones were of Vernal origin and chosen (in addition to desirable forage and disease reaction characteristics) primarily for a lesser response to short daylength. These clones were among approximately 300 evaluated in the Midwest nursery for forage and disease characters and in the Woodland nursery for seed yields and other characters. They have persisted in the holding nursery since 1964. On the basis of data since 1961 at Woodland, a recombination of these eight clones was made in a cage isolation in 1966 and seed used to establish Cal/West forage trials at Atlanta, Illinois; Waterloo, Iowa; and Sycamore, Illinois, in 1967.
2. For hay or haylage in Corn Belt States south of line from St. Paul and Madison. Tested in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. Tests in progress in Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, and Ontario, Canada.
3. Predominantly purple flowers, non-variegated. Stems uniformly lack or purple pigmentation. In California, fall growth after seed harvest markedly greater than 123, Vernal and Ranger. Upright growth. Susceptible to known races of spotted alfalfa aphid and to pea aphids.
4. Breeder seed is produced by recombination of the eight parental clones, maintained vegetatively under cage or in field isolations. Foundation seed is produced by increase from breeder seed in northern California. Foundation seed fields can qualify for only two seed crops. Certified seed is produced from planting foundation seed or from breeder seed after second seed crop.
5. Spring 1972.