SEEDS AND SHOOTS 7 



the staple field crops, as sugar-beet. The necessary labor has 

 been at command in Europe and the growers there have de- 

 veloped the requisite experience and skill ; and the people 

 here have been preoccupied with the large conquest of a con- 

 tinent. The Great War has challenged this situation and has 



for the commercial raising of field seeds. 



stimulated seed-production in North America; it is to be 

 expected that we shall not be so dependent again. Yet we shall 



