56 BULLETIN 995, XT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
time to look to foreign countries for a considerable part of our 
beet-seed supply. To make our beet-sugar industry safe and to insure 
American growers of sugar beets an adequate supply of high-grade 
seed free from the seed of stock beets we should produce annually 
from 16.000 to 20,000 acres of beet seed. This acreage must neces- 
sarily be increased from year to year to care for the constantly in- 
creasing acreage of sugar beets if the American beet-sugar industry fl 
is to be made safe and permanent. 
