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The Sugar-Beet in America 



pounds a year. For a number of years, in the neighbor- 

 hood of 10,000,000 pounds of seed have been used annually. 

 Prior to 1911, practically all this seed came from Germany, 

 Austria-Hungary, Russia, and France. Since that time 

 the home production has grown, and since 1914, when the 

 European war made it impossible to depend on the old 

 supply, the industry has developed very rapidly in 

 America. Palmer 1 states that 90 per cent of all the beet 

 seed used in the world is produced in Germany and Russia ; 

 69 per cent is from German-grown seed ; and 78 per cent 

 of all the beet-sugar produced outside of Russia and 

 Germany is from German-grown seed. 



The amount of seed produced in the United States in 

 1916 and 1917 is given by the Department of Agriculture 2 

 as follows : 



TABLE VIII. SUGAR-BEET SEED PRODUCED IN THE UNITED 



STATES 



1 Palmer, T. G., "Sugar Beet Seed" (1918), p. 101. 



2 Monthly Crop Report, December, 1917, p. 128. 



