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every particular can be grown in this country, few, if any, dis- 

 tinct American strains of sugar beets have been established and 

 used for commercial beet-seed production. All experience in 

 breeding and selection in this and in other lines would indicate 

 that such strains when properly established and thoroughly 

 acclimated if generally used for beet producton will yield even 

 better results than have been obtained in the experiments already 

 carried out. * * * 



PRESENT PROBLEMS 



As a result of existing conditions surrounding the sugar-beet 

 seed situation in this country two problems are confronting 

 the beet growers and sugar producers at this time, namely, the 

 production of a sufficient quantity of seed to meet the present 

 planting requirements and the establishment in this country 

 of a permanent beet-seed industry which shall meet our future 

 needs. These requirements relate not only to the quantity of 

 seed necessary to plant the desired acreage, but also to the qual- 

 ity of the seed and the quantity and quality of the roots which 

 this seed is capable of producing. 



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See Farmers' Bulletin No. 52, 1897, by Dr. H. W. Wiley. 



TYPES OF SUGAR BEETS 



It is a startling fact that there are in this country no dis- 

 tinct types of commercial sugar beets. If, for example, a field 

 of a given variety of wheat is examined it will be noted that 

 practically every plant bears a striking resemblance to every 



