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farm. By utilizing the science of two continents to develop 

 a definite, fixed strain of highly bred American beets, I am con- 

 vinced that they will be higher in germinating power, vitality and 

 tonnage and several per cent, higher in sugar content and purity 

 than the best beets grown from foreign seed. By centralizing 

 our efforts for the present in one favorable locality we will accom- 

 plish results most quickly, when other seed growers can take up 

 the work and perpetuate the strain, raising any quantity desired. 



" * * * In sugar-beet seed the market is confined to the fifty 

 or more factories which your association represents and without 

 their co-operation in furnishing a market for the seed produced, 

 the present plans cannot be carried out. 



* * * The hig ner germinating power and extreme vitality of 

 sprouts and beets from American-grown seed will insure an 

 earlier stand, a more vigorous growth and hence a higher ton- 

 nage. This also promotes immunity from diseases and re- 

 sistance to damage by insects and drouth. Furthermore, 25 

 per cent, less seed can be used and still secure a better stand than 

 with imported seed. Another feature is that where good and 

 poor seed is not thoroughly mixed, it sometimes occurs that 

 a considerable part of or the whole of a row does not germinate, 

 thus resulting in severe loss to the farmer. With American- 

 grown seed this risk would be entirely eliminated. 



" You can perform no more valuable service to the members 

 of your association than in calling their attention to the true 

 condition of the sugar-beet seed business and pointing out the 

 remedy for it." 



As the result of much writing and the issuance of 



