APPENDIX. 



Notes Upon and List of European Beet-Seed 

 Growers. 



The sugar beet, through long cultivation, becom- 

 ing so pliable, so willing to meet the requirements 

 of the environment in which it is placed, has 

 resulted in the creation of hundreds of types and vari- 

 €ties. Many manufacturers have taken upon them- 

 selves the production of their own seed; this plan for 

 a period of years was popular, and even now there are 

 thirty-five factories in Germany where the practice is 

 •continued. There must be connected with this an out-, 

 side market; for example, these factories just men- 

 tioned have special arrangements with other factories 

 to supply them with the beet seed they may require. 



In foregoing pages we have shown how much care 

 there is needed in the selection and sub-selection. So 

 many details cling together that its successful realiza- 

 tion, by sugar manufacturers in general, is hardly 

 practicable, as they have too frequently discovered after 

 an interval of possibly five years. What is true regard- 

 ing the manufacturer is equally true in cases of small 

 •dealers or growers, who attempt what they can only, in 

 a measure, accomplish. They must have invested con- 

 siderable capital, which yields no interest for a period 

 of years; when first starting, furthermore, sufficient 

 capital is needed to bridge over partial crop failure, 

 ■caused by climatic influences, or very low selling price, 

 caused by a frequent overproduction. The laboratory 

 appointments must be up to modern requirements and 



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