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Show 1 SUGAR BEET SEED 1 SCARCITY FACES 1 AMERICAN; GROWERS FS German Production Which Supplies PJn United States May Be Cur- uglft .- tailed. Expect Sugar figjyjfjK , To Gp Up KaTII - '' ' jE"U Salt Lake, Aug. C.-r-UUh and Ida HjkI ho may face a sugar beet sect! tain eS'M lno on hccount.of tho world war which HWfl is raging In Europe. At this time Wm thero Is little sugar, beet seed In tho p9L United States and what there Is lias $M heen concentrated In Utah'Joj one MaX of the sugar1 companies. Should tho u i campaigns planned In Europe devtis- fifn ' tato tho sugar beet fields It would md he Impossible for Utah and Idaho BnR sugar beet growers to have Ucrmnn Bft seed for tho 1916 crop. Slmllatly un Hll' extended blocktido of German ports HJMf would mako it hard for the sugar jraM companies to get moro seed for the IfjSf 1015 crop. Efforts are being made to get nil tho seed possible before the season opens. Ocrmany produces the sugar boot seed for the United States. While Utah, Udahd and California produro better! beets the soil Is not .adapted to thcj raising of tho seed a's In German Ger-man soil. Experiments' have been made . In growing seed In western America with eomo' success, but so far the production has not uoen o:i tin extensive stale. , On the other hand the war situation is such that tho iugar cpmpnnlfii be-lleve be-lleve they may be nblo to overcome' the severe blow dealt tho jndustry by tho Underwood tariff. Prices on mi-par mi-par aro expected to soar wlthiu' a shorltlme, as all tho nations nt war. In Etjropo are sugar producers and, heavy consumers of sugar. Should high 'prices prevail, returns to" the r V sugar companies would be such tlia they would "bo nblo to contlnuo in operation op-eration jit a profit. Managers offset"-cral offset"-cral of tho American companies-have frequently predicted tho factories wouid probably close in 1915 on account ac-count of tho Underwood tariff. Without Seed for 1915 Tho Lewlston Sugar company and tho Amalgamated Sugar company aro said to be without sugar beet seed for 1015. It has been the custom of the two companies to place their orders with German seed exporters In September of each year. Tho seed reached New York In December and was In Utah nnd Idaho for distribution distribu-tion In January. The sugar beet seed crop of Germany ripens tho latter part of August, and is gathered in September. Little hope Is held olA that any great part of tho crop will, bo saved or exported to the United States, unless the war In Europe is of short duration. The Utah-Idaho Sugar company has sufficient seed to plant the crop of 1915, but 'does not know where1 "if will obtain seed for 1916 unless the, war In Europe terminates so that the German planters may get their crops In the ground next spring. Arrangements Arrange-ments were made by the Utah Idaho Sugar company for more replant seed than was necessary last year, and this with' what sugar beet seed it already had Imported from Germany gives it sufficient to .weather the storm tof X91E. p!i least. George .A. Smith of the Utah Idaho Sugar company made the statement that 'the company- has sufficient see'd in its bins for the ""season of 1914 and further had sufficient seed for the replanting as well. . Expect Sugar to Go Up ' "Wo look for sugar to go 'up on account ac-count of the war as the nations engaged en-gaged In tho fight aro all producer! of sugar and all aro heavy consumers," consum-ers," said Mr. Smith. "This Is the ono bright thing connected with tho war. The Underwood tariff "made great Inroads on the sugar beet ln-( dustry of tho west nnd It Is now possible pos-sible that with high prices prevailing tho sugar companies of Utah and Idaho will bo given a longer lease of life than tinder ordinary circumstances. circumstanc-es. Tho tariff is ruinous." The failure of the beet seed crap In Germany on account of the war may cause the beet growers of Utah and Idaho to attempt to raise their own seed. Heretofore experiments have been conducted in the raising 6f sugar beet seed but tho efforts of the farmers nnd the sugar companies liavo not met with any great degreo of success. It is estimated by Mr. Smith that all of the sugar beet seed raised In tho United States would be about sufficient to plant 50 per ceit of tho area in Utah and Idaho which is now under beet culture It required 13,000 bags of seed, each weighing 110 pounds to plant the crop In Utah and Idaho this year. Tho average amount of seed -is from 1C to IS pounds to tho aero and the, replanting ,of the beet Holds takes from two to six pounds more of seed. All of the seed which Is now in tho ground with tho exception of what little has been used in experiments was Imported from Germany by the sugar beot companies and then distributed dis-tributed to tho farmers. New York Largest Market In 1913 tho sugar factories of the Utah Idaho Sugar company, tho Low-lston Low-lston Sugar company produced moro than 17S,000,000 pounds of sugar in Utah and Idaho. 'Ihe largest market for tho sugar Is found in New York, tho eastern states and tho states In the middle west. Some of tho sugar factories of Utah lust year required mbro than 3000 folght cars to move It to tho eastern markets and It was valued at moru than $7,500,000. The greater part of tho money expended by tho sugar companies goes direct ly to tho fanner who raises tho beets and fnlluro to obtnln seed for the 1915 nnd 191G crops woidd be n sovero blow to tho Industry. Mr Smith was confident yestordoy, hoeer, that tho sugar companies would In somo manner contrtvo to obtain ob-tain sufficient seed to keep the industry indus-try going. It was admitted that If tho wrr keeps going for two or moro years tho west will liavo to iralso IU own oui'ar beet eced j |