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Show WAR DEVELOPS A UTAH INDUSTRY. We accept as most important the announcement from the Utah experiment experi-ment station of our Agricultural college col-lege of Logan that the station has produced a far superior sugar beet seed cn a commercial basis to com-pete com-pete with the GermJtA seed, after! eleven years of experimenting by Dr. B. D. Ball, director. "This fall it was discovered, after eleven years of selecting and breeding." breed-ing." says a bulletin, "that a cugar beet seed had been secured al the Utah station which would produce beets with 12 per cent more sugar than the imported German seed. Following Fol-lowing this discovery. Dr. Ball and his associates directed their efforts to ascertain whether or not this seed could be produced on a commercial basis in order to compete with the German seed, produced under cheap labor conditions Dr. Ball declares that, with American machinery for agriculture work, these superior sugar su-gar beet seeds could be produced in Utah as cheaply and abundantly as in Germany. This discoverv, he says j ' I will mean approximately $212,000 In Utah. The demand for the Utah sugar su-gar beet seed, he says, will amount to mllliong oi dollars in America alone. Even before the war iu Europe opened, the sugar beet producers experienced ex-perienced droughts in seed from Ger-n-any. With the present war raging, the sugar beet industry was threatened, threat-ened, but Dr. Ball declares that in two ears the Utah experiment station will produce sugar beet seed for the factories here. There is an opportunity, opportu-nity, from tho results of the invest!- j r.ations of Dr. Dall and his associates, for a new and extremely profitable in- J dustry to arise here in Utah. Experiments Experi-ments in sugar beet seed culture have been tried in various sections of the United States at the experiment stations sta-tions but at none of the stations v. here the experiments were attempted attempt-ed did the production of the seed 1 rove practical It has never believed that American beet seed producers could compete with the cheap labor in Germany until proved by the experiment experi-ment reccntl finished at tho Utah station " This is excellent uews, coming at a time when there are prospects of a , complete breaking down of the Ger-non Ger-non export trade continuing over a period of two or three years, and the cutting off of all possibility of beet seed from that source The Standard made reference last week to the excellent results obtained by the Amalgamated Sugar company from the Logan seed, bat placed the increase in sugar contents at not more than one per cent. We are surprised sur-prised at the statement from the college col-lege that an Improvement of 12 per cent has been mado, which would give a beet close to 18 per cent saccharine sac-charine matter. oo |
