ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 11 



Fourth Year. In the spring of 1919, the "steckling" 

 are planted and in the fall they produce a crop of com- 

 mercial seed which can be planted in the spring of 1920, 

 producing beets from which sugar is extracted in the 

 fall of that year, five years from the time the scientific 

 work began. 



DISTRICTS WHERE GROWN 



The territory which is adapted to the production of 

 sugar-beet seed is much more restricted than is that 

 which is adapted to the production of commercial sugar 

 beets. Climatic and soil conditions which may be excel- 

 lent for the production of factory beets, more often than 

 not are unsuited for the production of sugar-beet seed. 



Germany produces more sugar-beet seed than does 

 any other country and practically all of it is grown 

 in the Province of Saxony, where the best sugar-beet 

 seed land sells at from $600 to $1000 an acre. Russia, 

 the next largest producer of seed, has two important seed 

 districts, one in Poland, one about Kieff. Nearly all 

 of the French seed is produced in the Departments of 

 Nord and Aisne; the Austrian seed is produced in the 

 Provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. Smaller quan- 

 tities are produced in Italy, The Netherlands, and 

 Brabant, Belgium. In the United States, considerable 



