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of roots produced from singles as compared with those 

 produced from multiple germ seeds. 



No doubt is expressed but that the single germ 

 characteristic will become fixed, but as to how soon 

 and as to how much of a tendency there will be to 

 revert, only can be determined by further investi- 

 gations and the lapse of time. 



NOTE. For further details of this work, see "Single-Germ 

 Beet-Balls and Other Suggestions for Improving Sugar-Beet 

 Culture," by Truman G. Palmer, in "Progress of the Beet-Sugar 

 Industry" in 1902, U. S. Department of Agriculture; "The 

 Development of Single-germ Beet Seed," by C. O. Townsend 

 and E. C. Rittue, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 

 No. 73, 1905; "Progress of the Beet-Sugar Industry" in 1908, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



SUGAR-BEET SEED SITUATION IN 1914, 1915 

 AND 1916 



The present annual seed requirements of American 

 beet-sugar companies are about 150,000 bags of no 

 pounds each, practically all of which is imported from 

 Europe, mostly from Germany. During the last 5 pre- 

 war years these imports amounted to nearly 60,000,000 

 pounds, for which there was paid about $4,500,000. 

 The bulk of this seed was supplied by one Austrian 



