Show BAGS SUGAR A BEET I SEED D THI THIS YEAR fAR I I Importations Increase 50 Per PerCent Cent Declares San Francisco Frani Fran Fran- I i cisco Importer Impressed I the Outlook in This State tate IMPORTATION PORT of sugar beet 1 I seed for the coming season exceeds cx- cx an any year by 50 I per pcr cent 1 bags having been imported to the United States for tor or this yeara vears planting This will he bo sufficient lt to supply the en- en tire tiro demand of or America for tor the time ensuing ing Inc year rear says Allen G G. G Freeman of or ofSan ofSan orSan San Francisco t president of or the time Jar largest cst I sugar r beet beel Importing firm in this Cou country U t ry This Is the largest Importation of sugar beet seed into this country since tho the Inception of oC the lie Industry In the time United States For five tho years previous pre to 1914 the tho number of or sacks never exceeded d O I Mr Freeman expressed himself as greatly Impressed with the sugar beet beel i industry of or Utah He considers much of the land Jand of or this state stale nd adapted to I tho time raising of oC Ru sugar ar beets and that thal the Is 18 Ideal for Cor a vast production tion NEW FIELD OPENS Hundreds of oC acres have ha been added to the tile already large c acreage c cIn In the tho last year car and anil with the time new factories that are now In tho time course j of or construction a large Jarge and profitable field will be open which will ill tend towards toward an Increased acrea acreage c Prices i of oC have advanced ad which Is an another an i 1 other Inducement towards the Indus Indus- industry tr try says Mr lr Freeman I Mr Ir Freeman when asked as to th the of or producing enough h in the tho United States Stales to supply tho the t demands o of the tho country saul said that he lie could see sec no reason why wimy it could not I be hl hut but that it would take time anti and a great r al deal heal of or mone money to obtain tho time quality and amid grade o of lied etl as that lint which Is hi now Imported I Into thi this country I I I I i Foreign n governments have hao spent i I years In the time of this class of or I seed raising and are able uble to 10 produce produce- a better grade rade of or seed than that I Ia I raised In Ia tills this countr country at nl present sent Mr tr j Freeman stated t. that the United States j I II I would after experience In his j I 1 Ion lomi be ablo able to comp compete te with foreign n countries In time the production of or sugar i I I beet t K ll cd ell but lUt that lint It was going to toI I tako time antI and experience j PRODUCTION IN U. U S. S I I Only one fourth to 0 one third of or the he seed used In the tIme United States Slates Is produced pro I In the time countr country Russia I Is credited cred Hell with being the lie greatest producer j I not riot only as to quantity but bul also as asto to tn I i i i i i I I i j t I i I I s Slurp the o h of or the tIme war var considerable difficulty has lias been hen II encountered by 11 Importers In obtaining obtain obtain- ing and anil shipping a sufficient quantity of seed need into the time United States Seed that previous pre to tho tIme war was shipped by lIy wa way of Archangel el anti and New cw York Yorki l i I. I now compelled to travel b by way of oC Vladivostok and San Francisco This I necessitates much overland hauling in ini inthe tho the cold and over or the time unbeaten roads of or northern Russia Ia Much 1 delay has lias I been heen encountered owing to the gent military laws Jaws now In force orce in j i that country countr- Mr Ir Freeman is In Salt Lake ke City lt for or a n r fi few w days looking over o the sugar beet situation in the time Intermountain I I states I I |