ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 101 



quantities of native seed, but most of their domestic 

 requirements are imported from Germany. 



For some years Russian seed growers have pro- 

 duced most of the seed for Russia's domestic sowings, 

 and recently, a small quantity for export. As soon 

 as the Germans realized that seed of as high a quality 

 as that produced in Germany could be produced in 

 certain sections of a few of the governments of south- 

 western Russia where both land and labor were ex- 

 ceedingly cheap, the leading German seed growers 

 proceeded to acquire large holdings of the choicest 

 lands in those sections where they established exten- 

 sive seed farms. The scientific work is done in Ger- 

 many, where all the selections and tests are made 

 with which to produce elite seed, which latter is shipped 

 to Russia and sowed for the commercial crop; this is 

 harvested and shipped to Germany and marketed 

 from there, either as Russian or as German-grown 

 seed. 



Germany and Russia furnish the seed for 90 per 

 cent, of all the beet sugar produced in the world; 

 69 per cent, of the world crop is from German-grown 

 seed; 78 per cent, of all the beet sugar produced out- 

 side of Russia and Germany is from German-grown 

 seed. 



