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Show tries have discovered the St. George seed. However, according to Mr. Thomas, once established, the business may be maintained in any kind of competition. Seed grown in Northern Europe requires two years to produce. The beets are harvested the first year, siloed over the winter and then transplanted trans-planted by hand the next spring to produce seed. ' In the St. George area, the seed is planted in the fall and the partly mature beets remain dormant dor-mant during the winter and then grow and produce seed the next season. The harvesting and transplanting transplant-ing of the beets, involving most of the labor, is eliminated, it was explained. Contracts for sale to foreign countries must be completed far in advance because only the surplus sur-plus seed can now be spared, it was said. duces beets resistent to the disease but beets of a higher sugar content con-tent than the European seed, it has been found. Countries under British influence influ-ence are today unable to get seed produced in countries under German Ger-man domination. This is the cBief reason why the far-away coun- UTAH BEETS FIND PLACE IN WORLD TRADE Production of sugar beet seed in the St. George area took on the garb of a world industry when 800 bags two carloads were loaded on the train to start a journey to Afghanistan recently. Douglas E. Scalley, vice-president and general manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, and David H. Thomas, company purchasing pur-chasing agent, said the shipment to this little country between India In-dia and Persia was only the beginning be-ginning as negotiations were near-ing' near-ing' completion to sell seed from Utah's Dixie to beet producing countries over the world. The war is one reason for the long journey of the Utah seed which will go to New York, then around the Cape of Good Hope, around the peninsula bf India to the port of Karachi, and then go by land to Kabul. Formerly the sugar beet seed used in the United States came from Germany and Poland. The production of seed began in Utah's Dixie during the process of developing by selection seed that would grow beets resistent to the curly leaf disease that threatened threaten-ed the industry here. The seed is grown under contract con-tract with the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. The seed not only pro- |
