62 SUGAR-BEET SEED 



In both sugar content and germination, the results 

 secured from this seed are equal to those obtained 

 from the best imported seed. 



SUGAR BEET SEED EXPERIMENTS IN SOUTH 

 DAKOTA 



The Agricultural Experiment Station of South 

 Dakota, in which state no beet-sugar factory has as yet 

 been erected, has been experimenting with sugar beet 

 culture since 1888 and with the development of Amer- 

 ican strains of sugar beet seed, since 1891. In a bulle- 

 tin,* which reviews the work of the station since 1888, 

 it is stated that they found no pure strains of commer- 

 cial seed that would give uniform tonnage or percentages 

 of sugar, but that on the contrary, beets grown from the 

 best varieties of seed gave beets which "differed from 

 one another by 10 per cent sugar in the beet." There 

 was also a great difference in the purity of the beet and 

 in the tonnage yield per acre. 



By making selections the average sugar content of 



* Sugar Beet Culture in South Dakota. Results to Date, 

 Bulletin No. 142, by James H. Shepard, Chemist, Department of 

 Chemistry, Agricultural Experiment Station, South Dakota 

 State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Brookings, S. D., 

 January, 1913. 



