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succeed. Nevertheless, experiments still are being 

 conducted in that state, both by sugar companies and 

 by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



SEED GROWING IN UTAH AND IDAHO 



In 1899 the Utah Sugar Company began experi- 

 menting with sugar-beet seed culture at Lehi, and since 

 has planted from 5 to 20 acres to mother beets yearly. 

 Since 1907 this company also has grown from 10 

 to 30 acres yearly at Sugar City, Idaho. Originally, 

 the work was conducted by Mr. C. A. Granger, sub- 

 sequently under Mr. Mark Austin, Agricultural Super- 

 intendent of the company. The quality of the seed 

 was excellent; the main difficulty experienced was in 

 keeping the mother beets through the winter. Large 

 sums of money were expended in trying to make the 

 enterprise a success, but it was not until 1912, when 

 Mr. W. K. Winterhalter, who represented the Russian 

 sugar-beet seed firm of Buszczynski & Lazynski, 

 became associated with the enterprise, that the work 

 assumed commercial proportions, since which time the 

 production has been greatly increased, now amounting 

 to 10,000 to 15,000 bags annually. 



