The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1916-06-23
BEET SEED SUPPLY
QUITE A PROBLEM
SERIOUS SITUATION CONFRONT.
ING BrJ:T PRODUCERS.
Plenty Across the Water. Hut Getting
Il Herr II Not An Easy Matter
Utah L. safe. Hut Other Districts Ia
the United states Arc Not 80 For
tunatc-SuRar shortage Feared

The supply 81 beet seed for the
1917 crop was the most serious prob
lem that confronted the joint meet
inR Ut the American Beet Producers
association and the American beet
Seed company. held In Detroit last
week according to r. A. Cutler. vice
president ana general manager Of the
Utah Idaho Sugar company. who re-
turned 60 HALT Lake city last sunday
from the meeting.
Representative OF the German beet
seed growers. with whom the most OF
the American beet growers have con-
tracts. attended the conference and
Offered little encouragement with re-
spcct a. the seed supply Tor 1917 Ac-
cntdinE to Information furninhcd the
meeting. there ~ ample seed In Ger
many o. care Tor the American crop.
but u h. practically Impossible "a get
II across the ocean. Some seed IN be-
Ing obtained from Russia at cNorhi-
tant figures, The price Of the seed
itself N not no eNorbithnt as the ocean
freight rates. and oven at high rates
II ~ next a. impossible 10 obtain space
on the boats.
Plenty ct Seed Ia Germany.
u IL estimated that there are APP
proximatcly Eight hundred thousand
bags OF seed In Germany and not
more than half OF Il viii be required
for planting there. The brokers cN-
pressed the opinion that difficulties
incident a. getting the seed out OF
Germany will be- more than doubled
since the recent battle In the North
sea.
According Ca the best estimates, APP
proNimatcly thirty thousand bags Of
seed viii be- produced In the United
States this year ana practically all 81
that viii be grown In Utah ana Idaho.
The American Beet Seed COMPANY.
which is operating In Utah and Ida
ho this year, VIII produce In the
neighborhood Of sixteen thouAsn nd
bags and the remainder viii De pro-
duced by the utah-Idaho Sugar COM
pany cutler expressed the opinion
that the beet sugar manufacturers Of
the int.rmountain country. with what
seed may be- obtained abroad. would
have enough for the 1917 crop. but
MhH A'hAlhl ~ Ahf NAAlhhh WI ihf
growers Of other districts In the Unit
ted States.
Sugar shortage Fcard.
From the reports OF crop conditions
received al the Detroit meeting. the
indications are that there viii be a
shortage Of sugar In the world mar
ket again this year Germany Rus
STA and Belgium viii plant about half
a crop, while the crop In France viii
be about 20 per cent OF normal or
even less, ON account OF unfavorable
weather conditions the Cuban crop
viii be about the same as In 1915.
The Michigan crop also suffered on
account Of unfavorable weather but
the crop OF the western part OF the
/ United States, according 10 the out
look at present viii be bigger than
ever before. lp Colorado the acre
ag' and yield viii be about normal
and normal conditions prevail with
the possibility that the yield viii be
little heavier than usual.
Outlook Bright la Utah.
on account OF the increased acre
age and the present favorable out
look, the states OF Utah and Idaho
will manufacture about third more
sugar this year than ever before. Al
though some of the growers of the
intermountain states suffered on ac-
count OF the frosts during the past
month. Cutler believes that the loss
viii be overcome by replanting,
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