Show i SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 26 1936 SUGAR OUTPUT THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE- Rising Future' of Ogden on Parade IS INCREASED - ( BYNEW BEETS '' ' j ' '- -' ' " - ' ' ' - - - 1 n i Are White Fly Resistant and Have Greater - Productivity-Developmen- t of sugar beets that are cot only resistant to white fly infestation but of higher sugar content and greater productivity has been a most Important factor for northern Utah during the last year Not only did it result in tremendous beet yields and consequent sugar output in the Ogden- area during 1935 but It assured the continued success of this basic agricultural industry While northern Utah and southern Idaho have beeij the chief areas immediately affected by this development every western state-wi- ll have better sugar beet- growing conditions as a result s The results of the 1935 beet seed plantings were announced at a meeting of representatives from eleven four of which sugar companies have plants in the immediate Og den district— Amalgamated Sugar company- - Utah-Idah- o Sugar company Lay ton Sugar company and ) o - r1 ""'' r - j s f' ' - — ' sk rtri -- Holly Sugar-compnTWO STRAINS OF SEED Two strains of beet seed having these characteristics now have been developed and will be produced in commercial quantities for the sea- - t f7 h- -- - r'xxk v ' ft' 3 & The coming generation the rising youth of the schoo Is today who are shown on the march In this graphic view of a Washington avenue parade gives assurance of a promising future for Ogden for multiplication The first trial was a dismal failure the seed returned evidenUy representing a cross of tAe original strain with standard commercial varieties Whether this was done intentionally or by accident is not known In order to understand why the multiplication could not be carried on economically in this county it n j is necessary to review the botany of the sugar beet The beet was first found growing as a weed along the shores of the Mediterranean It contained only JOIJET 111— (UP)— A "fast life" hats and argumentativeness are listed as some of the main reasons why criminals fall to make good on parole Dr Ferris L Laune of the parole board of Illinois said the list was compiled from results of a questionnaire circulated to Joliet penitentiary ' $10 : —f f-- Ohio Kindergarten Teaches Snow Play TOLEDO — (UP) — The "right and wrong ways to play in the snow" were explained by children in a program presented by Miss Maryj Griffith's kindergarten j Insist On Genuine themselves facing a serious curtailment of their market and are seeking some means of offsetting their former misjudgmeni They would like to set up branches to this country but to the case of Germany the embargo on the export of capital j prevents any such (action Their only outlet is to ccfoperate with American breeders and producers and they have little to offer to return for such They belittled the efforts! of the Americans until they fodnjd the American producers established and producing better adaptesi strains' and at less cost than European The resistant strains promise to eliminate the hazard of serious losses to the beet growers to areas subject to white fly invasion There is now practically assured a commercially successful crop every year This will tend to stabilize the industry and expand it'thereby bringing to the growers increased purchasing power and improving the economic situation of all business to these areas ice-bou- nd WASH IFOCECS PATENTED ADJUSTABLE APRONS CHILDREN'S DRESSES Kathleen Quinn Aprons Are the Only Aprons With Patented Adjustable Backs — Made In Utah Kathleen Quinn Garments are now being sold in the Largest Department Stores from New York to San Francisco For your protection look for the label in each dress or apron MADE IN UTAH BY THE OGDEN UTAH I j SOLUTION SEEN This offered a solution to the problem of multiplying seed from strains resistant to curly-to- p in this country Seed is planted to the fall fa the Messilla valley to New Mexico using a gram ami The plants ar never I t We must all become o C© Dim m 10 DD -h K D A D 01 Ql © il- We are proud to be numbered among the worthy enterprises that are helping to build Ogden and further develop the intermountain country You Have your own little cTrble of Home and personal interests Your neighbor has his But today we musf all learn to think and act within a larger circle than formerly We must become community-minde- d We must cooperate There must be more joining of hands and less jostling of el- In providing marketing facilities for millions of head of livestock each year we are supplying an important service for the livestock industry s y bows The policy of this bank as always will be to work for the general good of this section For whatever benefits this comf Our payroll money spent for feed and supplies is helping to make this a more prosperous happy community and we pledge continued cooperation with other worthy enterprises in further building Ogden munity must benefit every deserving dividual in it The first — Selrtlrme in4 bum buwvaKa— tion of surviving individuals to cur- p ue ion resulted hi serious disappointment Aftjn-- n been carried a few generations by the facilities of this bank can be useful to you You will find us ready to help you to make the best possible use of them J G OMMEiRGIAL O ij-to- v- -J 5ugar company 900 mother beets were planted for eloped germ-inatP 7 naseed y xwo More careful breed- - ECU3RITY mg C 3 PW in- iThere are a great many ways In which CAREFUL BREEDING ulc5 Harvard tro ment or large areas of land wheat and the return of dry to a wild state wherein the host plants of the fly flourished ' Some of the best beet territnr in the United States lay adjacent u sucn aoanaoned wheat lands on wnicn trie insect multiplied On the insect population migrating with the Drevaflinar wlnrf Jn vaded the beet fields leaving a crop mat m many cases was not worth the cost of harvesting The dam age was not of a mechanical na ture out a disease curly-to- p was iransmiuea oy the riy from diseas-1- 3 host plants to the beets Th European seed produced beets i particularly susceptible "to curly-to- p However it was noticed the observation of these conditions tnat a lew individual beets in a field otherwise damaged survived and even thrived beyond normal Some observers felt that these Ecauered survivors either had cot been infected or some element-I- n the surroundings had protected them from attack Others felt that inese-- individual survivors might nave a natural resistance to curly-top and some selections were made witn the thought of developing warns resistant to the disease "ig memoes were employed with encouraging results and today we have strains that are imn mune to curly-to- p and have a high The next problem which was the multiplication of seed arose from Vhe jpaU - volume resulting from war io a volume that could be planted on a commercial -Macura-uytrje- - first was t to send this seed to thought Germany Savants Board Member Tells Of Parole SetbacI re jji This Insect has caused trmm dous lasses to beet producers in our western states for years frequently lo forcing the closinar of factor! cated to territory otherwise very suitable for beets The populations of this Insect increased at an enormous rate following the abandon ma-turit- no-smok- ing f 1 CAUSED LOSSES such-area- - Lake Freighters Reported -- ) f j and the requirement of hand labor havs made it impossible for American producers to compete to price with European and hence we had no r American industry To return to our story of the Am erican seed industry: While the breeding of a strain of st beets resistant to curly-to- p was forward the white flv was the direct cause of another discoverv Down to the irrigated valleys of Arizona and New4 Mexico repeated efforts had been made to establish the beet sugar industry These efforts go back to the early years of the industry to this country Several factories were built and abandoned because of crop failure It was finally recognized that the crop K-failure was due to the white fly and curly-to- p No commercial crops of 73 beets have ever been: grown sugar to this district to this day! HowIcebound ever one experimenter persisted to the face of every failure jit was — Seventy-thre- e TOLEDO— demonstrated years ago that early lake frieghters(UP)are In to Toledo harbor waitingwintering planted beets resisted curly-to- p for a greater degree than late1 plants thaws' to release them fromspring their So this experimenter continued to quarters plant earlier and earlier until he started his beets to fall of tjie year previous to the growing season But unfortunately from his stand point the beets went to seed their nrst season This fact furnished the basis for extending the work with the purpose of growing seed rather tnan sugar beets go-in- m 0 TWO YEAKS TO MATURE By reason of the fact that the beet takes two years to mature seed production is expensive In Europe the planting seed is put out to the spring "and the beets are allowed to grow close together so that at the end of the first season they are small rooted These small roots are called steckllngs and are harvested and sliced for the winter The next season they are replanted by ' hand and produce seed in lite summer The use of the land for two years thinned but allowed: to crowd each other The following July they are Row Brews Over harvested yielding on the average Ohio Town Smoking over 2000 pounds of) cleaned seed per acre as compared to a European average of 1500 BUOYRUS O— (UP)— Residents One project involving the Pecos who have business with Audiand Mesilla valleys Pt New Mexico tor Clarence OppenlanderCity are likely and the Phoenix area of Arizona to find him on the public library now has growing naif enough seed steps In authorizing use of a room to supply the requirements of the to the building by the auditor the whole country for the year 1937 In library board specified that Oppenaddition there are Urge projects at lander an enthusiastic smoker rule St George Utah and Hemet to should abide —: by the — southern California i The whole project :of growing reInvited To sistant seed to America was given an impetus to 1934 by the altitude of European producers With" a Session By short and poor crop they demanded an exorbitant price and specified CAMBRIDGE Mass— (UP) —Retheir own terms of international ex- presentatives from 757 universities change of currency In this same and learned societies to nearly evyear invasion of the: White fly fur- ery country to the world have been nished a convincing! demonstration invited to Harvard university's terto the farmers of the) value of the centenary celebration to September new American resistant strains when compared with the European strains European producers now find ion y sons of 1937 and 1938 The two strains are in addition to the white fly resistant strain de-veloped commercially in the past fcur years which produces beets of equivalent sugar content under similar conditions to beets grown from commercial seed imported from EuropeAll the new seed is being grown near St George Utah Moepa Nev Hemet Cal Phoenix Ariz and Las "Crucas N M More than 6000 acres now are devoted to the seed culture providing a sufficient amount of the resistant strain to care for all white fly infested areas said Mr Scalier United States department of agriculture officials have developed the new seed and It is being grown 4n commercial quantities under supervision of sugar company agents This coming crop year farmers of the United States' will plant about a million acres to beets using ap15000000 pounds of proximately sed having a gross value of two r and a quarter million dollars Of this 15000000 pounds of seed a substantial part will be seed grown in America by American farmers This is a new situation since the beet sugar Industry has in the past relied almost entirely on seed grown In Central Europe particularly in Germany The sudden substitution of American grown seed for European seed is one of those upsets in foreign trade that arises from a series of circumstances which had not been planned or foreseen It will probably be deplored by those of our economists who extol our foreign trade even though the benefits of the change seem to : fan to our own citizens- It now seems assured that the American beet seed industry will expand until reliance on European seed is reduced to a minimum It seems a sound policy however to continue business with the European producers to an extent that will' Insure lis in "all years against seed crop failure in this country it is said that a city In one of our southern states has erected a xijunuiucriu mj me cuifcon Don weevu because It forced the cotton growers into diversification of arm unrt into the use of better strains of cotton thus promoting the prosperity of the community In a similar manner the American beet seed industry was forced Into existence by an insect called the white fly about seven per cent sugar had a small straggly root and grew from the seed and matured seed to one season After many generations of breeding the root now averages two pounds to weight and the first year of its growth it merely stores sugar using this stored sugar during the second year to produce seed So its present growth habits require two years to produce seed During the generations of breeding the beet has been changed through various shades of red yellow and white Jt has been made to grow with most of its main top root above ground and then again with only the crown showing above ground Its shape has varied from a ball to a long slender taper Its leaf characters have been changed many times Its chemical constituents have been changed repeatedly Today it is probably the most highly commercial use bred plant-t-- " ' ' 13-- C R Q Bane A o |