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Show Plan To Grow Beet Seed Company Formed to Undertake Cut- tlvatlon of Seed Supply In the United States Doflnlto steps nro now bolng taken to establish tho Industry of sugar beet BOed production In tho United States on n permanent basts. Tho t'nltcd States Heet Seed Company Is being incorporated under Ifto laws of Utah for tho purpose of undertaking the growing of beet seed and wl'l In-cludo In-cludo 'among Its directors representatives representa-tives of several of tho largo boot sugar companies. W. K. Winter-halter, Winter-halter, of San Pranclsco, n beet seed expert who has boon lnborlng for sovcral yeas to dovelop tho beet seed Industry In the United States Is to ho tho director of tho now enterprise. Tho work of .selecting n supply of beets for planting next spring is now under w-ny, and It Is planned to store j C000 tons of beets for this purpose. Tho new company expects to bo-gin bo-gin Its growing operations In Utah and Idaho, where beet seed 'hns been grown successfully during tho past several years and whoro tho crop of tho present senson is expected to amount to some 1 1,000 bags Whllo It Is hoped that the opera, tlons of the now company will mako posslblo within a few years tho pro-ductlon pro-ductlon in this country of a supply of beet seed sumcient to satisfy tho requirements or the boot siifrnr Industry, In-dustry, it will not nfTect tho s'nortago for tho coming season, as two years aro required to complete) the cycle from seed to seed, whllo tho production produc-tion of satisfactory seed strains is n matter of 'scvernl years of careful selection. At tho present tlmo It Is estimated that ono halt tho seed required re-quired for planting n normal acrc-ngo acrc-ngo of sugnr beets In 101G Is on hand. Tho remainder can ho obtained, ob-tained, if nt all, only In Europe. At n recent mooting or 'beet sugar manurncturers In Salt Lake City, n committee wns appointed' to take up tho matter of .obtaining a supply or seed from Europe nnd to mtlst, If posslblo. tho nsslstnnco of tho Stnto Department In this effort. Germany and Russia afe tho on'y countries from which r.n adequnto supply of seed can be obtained. It Is understood under-stood thnt Germnny will permit tho salo ot seed only on condition that mod stufTs are rccolved In exchango and to this Great Britain refuses to accedo. The difficulty or finding means of .transportation stands in tho way of obtaining seed from Uus sla. In undertaking tho growing of boot seed in tho United States, It 1b realized real-ized that with tho return of normal conditions In Europo, it may ho difficult dif-ficult to opcrato In competition with Germany and Ttussln In beet seed culture on account of tho lower wages wag-es In thoso countries. It was decided, decid-ed, however, In view or tho Import-anco Import-anco or having nn ndequato supp'y of fresh seed available In this coun-trj coun-trj during tho continuance of tho war, to go abend with tho ilovclop. mont of tho Industry regnrdloss of .posslblo later difficulties. |