Show SUGAR BEET SEED an increase of has been granted in the agricultural appropriation act of 1917 for aiding in the development and improvement of american trains of sugar beet seed and especially for the establishment of a permanent sugar beet seed industry in the united states th s beet sur sugar a industry in the united states I 1 has assumed great proportions in spite of the fact that we have had to look to europe E U mainly for our beet seed the production pr of sugar beet seed is a new important but industry in the united states state and one that has received added importance due to the shortage in sugar beet seed resulting from the european war in 1902 at the same time that the united states government began the study of L sugar beet seed the utah station took up tho the work after countless experiments and tests covering nine years they were able abla to announce that they had bred up a strain of cf sugar beet seed su to any of european strains in productivity and sugar content of the resulting crop this statement was corroborated by several sugar companies who found that greater yield per acre of beets with higher sugar content resulted from using utah seed in 1911 when a superior strain of seed had been secured the problem was to produce the deec seed in in corrinn commercial erceal quantities since then the station has been working upon this problem and it has now been demonstrated that a superior sugar beet seed can be produced in quantities sufficient to supply the demands of the factories of this country |