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Show uu SUGAR BEET SEED IN UTAH. Our Agricultural College at Logan bas IsHwed a bulletin on sugar beet seed In Utah In which this conclusion conclu-sion is set forth : "The outlook for Utah as a sugar beet seed producing section Is promising. prom-ising. Tho climate and soil seem welJ adapted to the grovth of seed, and the availability of irrigation water wa-ter makes a uniform yield doubly ce tain The difficulties In tbe way of establishing thLs Industry at once axe First, the fact that It taken a number Of years to get mother 'seed of high standard Ln sufficient ; quantities to produce commercial-seetl ; and .aecoud, it Is necessary to have:iucn who are acqualntexl with; metbxxls-' o ' handling the Industry The .'IbdoKtry . cannot be developed . by I individual . 'farmers, but must be rotfteredj.'hy companfcee, or man having rufflcltbtoapttiiJ to carry It during th firstyears , audi It Is established.-, It Is a ntjfffcataf ' t '1 ul ring capital, a as special training, but . from I expertpaemta and experience of the,-Utah BxpeTtmenT Station the Jinilnritry should he able to pay a good dividend in Utah." The upaot caused , by., the war in Europe has &hown theJabfeomte'vuecea-sity theJabfeomte'vuecea-sity of the beet f sugar industry ' in the United States ceasing' to depend entirely on .Germany or an rf other ffor-eign ffor-eign j country for beet seed. Only by strenuous efforts was boot seed obtained, last v fall for this tyrfeCrDp. As a form of laaraocoUtaai-'shoukr'' raise' Ub own' beet seed. But raisineF the seed is not a simple operation. time, ' patience and a coosJoorabis outlay are required The lx?pan expert ex-pert gives some Idee of tho labor Involved in thi6 brief sketch of the general procedure: The approved method of produ ing seed requires1 a number of year6 of selecting and testing in order to get a strain possessing the desired qualities quali-ties Seed is saved from tested beets of selected strains This is called I mother seed." This mother seed is thfii planted and the beets which are obtained used as mother beets to produce pro-duce the commercial seed two years I later Roots only are produced the lirst year after seed is planted. These must be dug and stored over winter, j and the second year they are set out and produce seed The difficult part J of the operation Is the securing of suitable "mother seed." After this ii, obtained the individual farmer can raise the commercial seed. The "mother seed ' used In raising the mothers which produce me commercial commer-cial seed. Is obtained only at consld erable expense and after a number of years of work The procedure usually carried out is about as follows: The first year a great many beets of desirable de-sirable size and shaio are analyzed for sugar The better Individuals are siloed and the second year are planted and produce seed The third year the seed Irom each beet is planted separately and the resulting beets analyzed an-alyzed From this analysts it is pos slble to tell which of the original beets with a high sugar content are able to transmit to their progeny this necessary quality. The poor strains are discarded and the good ones siloed, si-loed, to be used tbe fourth year in producing the "mother seed." The mother seed' is planted the fifth year and the beets obtained from it produce the commercial seed the -dxtii year from the time tbe work was begun |