236 SUGAR BEET SEED. 



growers who have been in the business but a few years 

 are not to the advantage of the manufacturer, and sim- 

 ply mislead the public in general. For such beets, 

 when planted, will show great variations, not only in 

 their sugar percentage, but also in size, even upon the 

 same soil, under the same climatic conditions and the 

 same care for their cultivation. Such conditions would 

 not exist with the Vilmorin, Legras, Wanzleben and 

 Knauer, for example. 



Vilmorin, on the one hand, and Klein-Wanzleben, 

 on the other, have more reasons to complain of the 

 infringement on their prerogative than any other beet- 

 seed creators. They have added originals to their 

 types, which make an important mark of distinction. 

 There are possibly thirty very serious specialists who 

 have taken the beets of these two promoters as a start- 

 ing point in their selection, and have created not only 

 what are excellent varieties, but very important depar- 

 tures from the old routine. 



