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Show BEET SEEDS ARE OF GREAT VALUE , I The agronomy professors of the Ag- rlcultural college have just planted l; on the North Logan experiment farm ; 5 a bag containing about two pounds of j sugar beet seed, which "they say rcpre- ' sents thousands of dollars of actual expenditure. It is the seed of one & plant It is the result of eleven years of experimentation and seed selected V. on the 'North Logan farm. 1 While considerable spaco has been . devoted to the culture of sugar beet it-seed, it-seed, this bag of seed comes from a strain, the choosing from which each - r year has resulted In a type that will j r-give r-give the heaviest yield of beets con- ' I, taining the highest per cent of sugar, j t It originated in seed secured from the j r department of agriculture at Wash- i f. ington in 190o. During the eleven f years thousands of analyses have beetf I made. I The agronomy people of the college l-have l-have for some time entertained the j belief that sugar beet seed growing i on a commercial scale may In time bo f made a success in Utah. While the J possibility of such a thing does not j depend wholly on the segregation of j this strain, yet this strain is consid- J f ered the best yet bred there. f. Thoy will carefully husband all the t. offspring seed from this precious two pounds and thus in a few years hop? f to present to the state a strain of 1 seed in sufficient quantities to make . their dream of our beet growers' buy- , ing their seed froni Utah producers a reality. |