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Show GROWING 8EET SEED BECOMES BIG INDUSTRY Nearly Two Million Pounds Produced by One Company in Year Ordwlng of beet seed i. is become one of the more important allied factors fac-tors of the Intermountatn sugar making mak-ing and during the past year on- company, com-pany, the United States Sugar Beet Seed company produced 1.600,000 pounds. This w ;ls larger than tl.e totaJ . u Id of sugar beet seed in any pre-ious pre-ious year and mon; than three tirne as much as in 19 13. when the drought affected the crop; trior to the world war. I'tan sugar companies and others throughout th--nation secured their sugar beet Seed supplies entirety fion: BSurope. Vast Imports were made from Germany and Russia. When first the German and then the Russian ' seed supplies w ere cut off by war. American Interests sought methods of home production, Tin organisation of the beet seed company com-pany followed ;wid since 1 'J 1 6 the yields, excepting for the drought year, have consistently increased. While vast lots of European seed are imported, import-ed, the hope is that some time the entire beet seed supply can be secured from the crops of lntermounluin fields. OPTIMISTIC REPORT. Success of the company during the year is of special Interest when viewed in comparison with the rather pessimistic pessi-mistic feeling held one ycur ago as shown by the seed company's official report which follows: The results of this year's operations have been disappointing for the United Uni-ted States Beet Seed company. Eue to a variety of causes over which we bad no control, we produced approximately approximate-ly only 530,000 pounds of beet seed) while sari estimates indicated a production pro-duction of approximately 1,300.000 pounds. This falling off was due mainly lo the drought which existed in the Snake river valley, Idaho. TABU snows PRQXH ( I l v The following table gives the acres and production sine the beginning of the company's operations. Veu" Acres planted Seed produced 1916 . ... 770 fiSf.BOO I'JlT 1,281 946,000 19IS . . . 1.503 1.095, To-' 1919 .... l',96? 630,000 Stockings sufficient to plant 1.637 acres next year were ralsod during this year and are now in the silos on the different farms. The quality of these sloe-Mings, however. Is below that of previous years and the year's operations weer so disappointing tint it is possible s meeting of the stockholders stock-holders will le called some time in January, when the future policy of the company will be decided oo |