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<br />Suge.r baeis can be protltebly grown on the proJect <br /> <br /> <br />whenever c tllctorjT for their proc9/l&ing luIs been bullt in tl1e <br /> <br /> <br />basin. Prior to 1925, experimental plots at various points <br /> <br /> <br />in the basin indiceted that Buger baettJ would l'llcture in ell <br /> <br /> <br />the pJ.Dces that !;'ere tried. Starting '!litb. 1925, and during <br /> <br />each 01' the tollowin& tuo yeers Rbout 500 acres of' beets were <br />'contracted Bcd slllpped to the 1'l<ctory at Velte, Colorado. <br />At tllat time sugst: beets :IIn most !fOrts of the,Onited <br />states were inJured by a disease mown eB curly top or ourly <br />leei', "nd the beets grown in tlle basin \'lere Illso n!1'ected. <br /> <br />In spite of thill, however, the yield of beetll for the "hole <br /> <br /> <br />basin. Villa over 12 tonll per eore. a figure aeldom ellual,led by <br /> <br />other sreea in Western Colorado. The suger content of' over <br /> <br />17l', wes aleo high. Sinoe 1927, there has been developed <br />a strain of AlIlsricall beet seed (eU beet seed well formerly <br />illl;>orted from Germell1) whioh is not only relliateut to curly <br /> <br />top, bu.t already pro!llilles n larger beet of eltceptional sugar <br /> <br />content and purity, although not yet tully develo;JEId. Witb <br /> <br /> <br />this improved seed the M&ncos Valley ~bould be en even better <br /> <br />place to grow beets than eppeared to be the case during tile <br /> <br />N <br />N <br />W <br />'-,It <br /> <br />experiment. <br /> <br />At pre Dent the. ex~eriment81 reining of beet seed <br /> <br />in the Animas Valley promises to be ~n unqualified succeSS. <br /> <br />daa largely, according to those in chorge, to unusually <br /> <br />19 <br />