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PROVIDE
AGAINST
SHORTAGE
OF
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SUGAR-BEET
SEED IN 1291.
American
proaucers
are
urzed
by the
United ‘States
Devartment
oi
Agricui-
ture
to
grow
sugar
beet
seed
surhicient
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for their
1. :ds.
{'he shortage
of
sugar-
bect
seced1
the
United
Siates
«for
the
1921
plantines
will be
serious
anless
the
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beet
sugzar
companies
and
seed
growers
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in
this
councry
arrange
Immediately
for
|
the
produciina
of
a
large
pait
of their
|
sugar-beet
sead
rcquirements
ifor
thar
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year.
This
statement
by
the
Udited
|
States
Deparument
of
Agriculture
s
based
upon
unofiiciai
bu: reliable
reports
from
rcpresentatives
of beet-sugar
com-
panies
and secd
dealers
who have
recent-
ly visited
the
sugar-beet
secd-producing
countries
oi Kurope
i'he
sugar-peetr
seed
situaticn
for 1921
is
serious
because
ot the limited produc-
tion of sugar-beet
seed
in Edarope
as
com-
pared
with
former years,
because
of the
increased
act.vity
in beet-sugar
produc-
tion
in
Eurvopean
countries,
and
because
of the increased
acreage
plant-d
to bees
in
this
country
in
recent
years.
It
is
probabie
that several
years
wiit elapse
be-
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rore
normal
gquantities of sugar-beet
secd
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will
be produced
in European
countries.
|
American
growers,
therefore.
must de-
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pend
to a considerable
extent
upon home-
grown sugar-beet
seed.
['nere
seems
o
|
be
no good reason
why 'tnis country should
not
produce
its full requiremer
tof sugar-
|
beet
seed,
annual
y.
The domestie
pro-
|
duction
of
sugar-beet,
now totaling mil-
lions
of pounds,
hz&s demonsirated
that
sugar-bect
"seed
ofthe
highest
quality
may
be produced
in
this couniry,
T
.
The present
ind.cations
are
that there
is sufficient
sugar
beet
seed,
either
im-
orted
or domestic,
tow
in the
nands
of
nearly
all
of
the
beet
sugar
comparnies
in the United
Siates
to take
care
of the
entire
acreage
to
be
planted
o
sugar
bees in 1920,
Bt that
there
is
very
lit-
tle foreign
sugay
beet
seed
now
avaiia-
ble
for importaiion,
and
that
the
foreign
i
production
in the
immediate
fuiure will
|
be
nmited.
Sinee
the
sugar-beet
sced
stored
udnder
Lormail
conditicns
will
retain
its
vitality
rfor
several
vears.
it
would be advisaliic
ror
sugar
ccmpanies |
to
secure
any
shgar
beet
seed
of
good
|
quali.
v now avaifable
and
not
more
than
|
two years
old.
j
The
demestietbeet-seed
produztion
is
|
increasing
rapidly.
In 1918
aboat
6,000
|
acres
ol
sugar-beet
seed
were
grown,
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while
in
1919
upward
oi
10,060
acres
|
were
planted
to
beet
roots
for
seed
,
in
the
United
States.
Unfortunately,
|
drouglit
interfered
with
a
normal
|
producition
of
sugar-beet
seed
in
sonie
|
localities
this
®ast
season.
tut
the
|
resulting reduction
in yield was
lceal
2nd
temporary
and should
not
prese.t
or
re-
tard
tie
efforts that
are
being rade
to
produce
in
tais country
an adequ
ite
sup-
ply of sugar-beet
seed
to meet th- Amer-
ican requirement
for 1921
and
tle years
following.
;
In order
to preduce
a crop of sced
next
vear for the 1921 ‘planting,
it wi.l be
ne
cessary
to seieck.he
beet
roots
this fall,
pit them
so
they will
not
freeze
during
the winter,
and
plant
them
as
~arly
as
soil and
weathe.
conditions
will
permit
next
spring.
Persons
desiring
full
de-
tails in regard
to :rowing sugar-b set
seed
should address
the Ofiice
of Sugar
Plunt
[nvestigations,
Fareau
of Plant Indusiy,
Department
of
A ariculture,
Wasaiugton,
D. C.—Louisianc.
Planter.
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