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Show EXPERIMENT STATION WORK. Agronomy Department. The growing of sugar beets is fast gaining prominence in our state. The" station it conducting important experiments, ex-periments, 1st with object of determining deter-mining the varieties best adapted to be grown here, for yield per acre and siUgar content. 2nd, a number of plats arc devoted to irrigation beets with the object of solving the following follow-ing questions: 1st irrigation, viz., yield. 2nd, irrigation, viz., sugar con- tent. 3rd1, the .best amount of water I to' apply. 4th, the best time of ap-I ap-I plying the water. 5th, the best meth- od of applying the water. Ml -3rd, Utah has great promise of bc- coming a sugar beet seed producing W state. The Station is doing considcr-I considcr-I . able work along this line of dcvclop-t dcvclop-t .ing and breeding beets with a high I . percentage of sugar and at the same time good seed producers. Tw, set of beets are planted each year, one producing Elite beets for mothers the next season and one producing seed. Valuable strains arc being brought out which will undoubtedly be of vast importance to the sugar beet growers grow-ers in the Inter-Mountain Region. Home grown seed as a general rule produces beets that give a higher yield per acre and also that have a higher sugar content than imported seed. We arc emphasizing yield, sugar content con-tent and seed production, and arc striving for improvements along these lines. |