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Show 3eed Cleaning i esting Nearing Finish ' T:ie ptah-Idaho Sugar com- j " n-v ha now completed over T,'f of the cleaning, testing and hiding of this years crop at their p-r.t "in the old opera house v-'Jt.j. T,lis company has er-x-ei And installed very efficient ; foment and is at the present! 4e' turning out approximately gve ton of graded seed per day. To da:e 'her,? has t"?on 0Ver l' f.Vwr.s of seed shipped from ' P:aa:- and they expect to have i'on: 75.000 tons more before tVs seasons crop is complete. T: ere are twelve men employ-f,i employ-f,i t. the plant which is operatic operat-ic on a twenty-four hour basis. It' addition to this they are us-'& us-'& local truck men to transport yt ..,e 5e5(i that is delivered rii:n the state. Seed going out j f :'r.e state is taken by truck to j e-i.-r and shipped by railroad t- faa: point. The company I iipiird two carloads to Black-! ot. Idaho this week. The seed is given a thorough j ;; s: for moi?f.ii icxvtent. germ In- JTT"ar.d size. Each farmer's j :? i$ carefully tested in every, zj and complete records of his r-e-'i are kept by the-company to. t r-.-ierred to at any time. Out ; f K:oh thousand pounds there t ;io tests of one hundred each made to determine the k-.-r.fr of seed that will germln- p ' To do this the seed is plac- . ::i trays which are numbered tt' ea-h number is registered l z the name of the grower. M ziei remains in these trays period of fourteen days. A 'Usheek is kept at all times i. the , end of this period the fcVcer of plants growing are bunted. i This seed should show a count If 5i?nty-five to ninty out of fc? hundred. The quality of the !ed in this respect is largely 5f.rerr.ed by the richness of the .k-ii that it is grown in and the litcre that it has received during it growth. Peed plants that are n'.erted as to the proper amount C oi water, time of watering and novation or not grown on rich enough so:', will show a low test "pf . eerrjir.a-ion. Xaturally the Eusar Bee- Seed company must require that the seed come up to the standard set for seed. The seed grown in Dixie shows .a fr.e rcoisnire content, hut in dfome cases is low on the germination germin-ation test. However said Mr. Ir.fen. district agriculture supt., -ti:s can he easily overcome if the growers w;U rotate their crops 3 ar.d give the beet seed the proper fare. Mr. Jensen went on to say that his company has proven it to plant seed only once in three to for r years. Take a man B with tVenty acres, he should plan .or, u?ing five for seed and rotate the othr fifteen in such a man- 3 nr that every year he would (have fire, ;n SUgar beet seed and o-her fifteen acres should be 3 In -rrain or alfalfa. In this way I'l-'Vi'.l not only improve his soil '' the growing of seed but will &-.n enrich it for other crops. I The amount produced per acre a d M" Jensen has varied from II return of $125 to $200. This 6 a tremendous difference when lni realize that in most respects -3 man that only received $125 W Practically as much work as Je man that received the $200. arh required the same amount f time, effort and expence in the vff! !at'-'r f plowing harrowing and larting. The Utah-Idaho Sugar com---"ir has 125.000 acres in sugar jr ---s which is used for sugar ft J;,1' -'It takes approximately fifty fif-ty '"ir-Unds of seed to the acre. : t ' X easy to see the enormous ; fr)icunT"of seed that this com-:.' com-:.' 'ay alone is able to use. They 0 have, eighteen sugar beet Tories for the making of sa-( sa-( 9 These factories started to erate on September 2 5th and s. 1 a" I"? in operation bv October |