216 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 ! 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 ? 
as follows: 
TasLe VIII. — Suaar-Beer Seep PRopUCED IN THE UNITED 
STATES 
Brats Grown For Spap 
StaTps 1916 1917 (Preliminary) 
Production o! Production of 
Area Seed Area pee 
Acres Pounds Acres Pounds 
California, Idaho, Utah . || 2,178 | 1,628,000 || 2,523 | 2,458,000 
Colorado, Kansas, Mon- 
tana, Nebraska . . .|! 2,725 | 3,455,000 |] 1,978] 3,030,000 
Michigan and Ohio . . 365 | 128,000 78 58,000 
Total . . . . .|! 5,268 | 5,211,000 |) 4,579 | 5,546,000 
1 Palmer, T. G., ‘Sugar Beet Seed’’ (1918), p. 101. 
2 Monthly Crop Report, December, 1917, p. 128. 
