218 The Sugar-Beet in America 
from domestic than from imported seed. The same result 
has been obtained in many other places since that time. 
At the Utah Experiment Station,! tests were made to 
compare imported seed with that produced on the Station 
farm. The results given for imported seed represent the 
average of seed received from a number of foreign seed 
companies. In all cases, it was represented to be superior 
seed. The home-grown seed is from strains raised at the 
Experiment Station for ten years: 
Taste [X.— Comparison or Berets Ratsep rrom IMPpoRTED 
AND FROM Uta EXPERIMENT STATION SEED 
Utan SEED Importsep SEED 
Year Per Cent Sugar| Yield Beets |Per Cent Sugar| Yield Beets 
in Beets Tons per Acre in Beets Tons per 
Acre 
¥91I2 « « « 18.97 22.68 18.25 25.15 
19138... 16.40 21.28 15.58 26.08 
1914... 16.25 25.06 15.45 29.03 
The table shows that although the beets from home- 
grown seed were higher in sugar-content in each of the 
years than the beets from imported seed, the yield was 
somewhat higher for the imported seed. 
Germination tests were conducted to compare the im- 
ported and the home-grown seed with the following result 
expressed in number of sprouts to 100 seed-balls: Im- 
ported seed — a, 53; 6, 79; and c, 124; the average of 
six samples of home-grown seed was 126. Since each 
1 Harris, F.8., Utah Exp. Sta., Bul. No. 136 (1915). 
