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Show WILL PERMIT UTAH 10 GETET SEED England Guarantees Prompt Transportation of Cargoes Destined for This State. AIDS SUGAR INDUSTRY Enough at Hand for This Year, but Shortage Was Feared for 1917. Word was received here yesterday hy Associated Press from Washington tbat Great Britain had promised the United States to permit the prompt transportation transporta-tion from Rotterdam of a large quantity quan-tity of sugar beet seed bought in Austria Aus-tria for sugar beet firms in Utah, which are expected to make the United States independent of the European supply. While he has received no advice in the matter as yet, T. B. Cutler, vice president and general manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, expressed the opinion last night that the sugar beet seed referred to in the Washington Washing-ton dispatch was a part of an unfilled un-filled order placed with foreign dealers deal-ers several years ago. Shortage in Seed. The Utah and Idaho companies received re-ceived practically all the seed contracted contract-ed for in Europe for the 1915 crop, but so far this year the Utah-Idaho company com-pany has received but 11 per cent of the amount contracted for in Germany. In former years the company has received re-ceived seed from Germany, Austria and Russia, but principally through German dealers. Utah and Idaho require approximately approximate-ly 10,000 bags of seed annually, but if no seed is received this year the companies com-panies assert that they have ample seed on hand for the 1916 planting. England has agreed to let the American firms import seed from Germany in exchange for money, but the Germans decline to exchange the seed for anything but provisions. pro-visions. Much Home-grown Seed. The Utah and Idaho concerns have experimented extensively for several years in beet seed raising and have been o successful that they now have on hand a considerable quantity of American-grown seed, enough to insure the 1916 crop. Practically all the larger companies of the United States have joined in promoting the United States Beet Seed company, which is now arranging ar-ranging to go into the beet seed business busi-ness on a large scale in Utah and Idaho. Ida-ho. Plans are now under way for the growiug of seed next year and, although it will be several years before the company com-pany can furnish home-grown seed to supply the American demand, it is believed be-lieved that what is grown here and what may be obtained from Europe will keep the beet sugar industry going. In an effort to obtain tue European seed which has been contracted for. the sugar companies of this country nave ! had representatives in Washington for (several months in constant touch with j the state department and exerting every ev-ery effort to facilitate the movement of ; seed from the. warring countries. |