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The Sugar-Beet in America 



from domestic than from imported seed. The same result 

 has been obtained in many other places since that time. 

 At the Utah Experiment Station/ tests were made to 

 compare imported seed with that produced on the Station 

 farm. The results given for imported seed represent the 

 average of seed received from a number of foreign seed 

 companies. In all cases, it was represented to be superior 

 seed. The home-grown seed is from strains raised at the 

 Experiment Station for ten years : 



Table IX. — Comparison of Beets Raised from Imported 

 AND FROM Utah Experiment Station Seed 



The table shows that although the beets from home- 

 grown seed were higher in sugar-content in each of the 

 years than the beets from imported seed, the yield was 

 somewhat higher for the imported seed. 



Germination tests were conducted to compare the im- 

 ported and the home-grown seed with the following result 

 expressed in number of sprouts to 100 seed-balls : Im- 

 ported seed — a, 53 ; b, 79 ; and c, 124 ; the average of 

 six samples of home-grown seed was 126. Since each 



1 Harris, F. S., Utah Exp. Sta., Bui No. 136 (1915). 



