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, S CURRENT NEWS BULLETINS The loose leaf service" Concerninr Suear 11 includes only such data as is of permanent value to the PALMER • suear industry; to supplement this, these unofficial news bulletins are issued for circulation amone members of the U. S. Surar Manufacturers' Association and covers subjects which are of temporary interest only, such as foreirn and domestic suear-beet seed, coal and other supplies, cost of beets. labor supDlY, proposed or enacted leeislation, testimony before Conrrcssional committees, etc., etc. Such comments and observations as these bulletins contain are to be considered merely as suee-estions for reflection and not as expressin2' the matured tbourbt of either the writer or of members of th e Association. Comments frequently are based upon unconfirmed newspaper reports and should be considered as bearing- tbe headline" Important if True. 1 1 -TRUMAN G, PALMER, (35) Washington, D, c. April 24, 1919, Gentlemen:- Herewith, I reproduce in full, a letter just received from Kuhn & Co,, sugar-beet seed growers, of Naarden, Holland. r visited their s E' ed laboratories in l'?HO and since have corresponded with them from time to time. The concern stands high, personally the Dudek van Heels are charming people and their laboratories and other equipment indicate careful and highly scientific work. In 1911 they outlined to me a plan somewhat on the lines of the letter herewith attached, but at that time. not enoug_~ interest was ~anifested by our people in the project to consid~r it seriously. s~ch information as reaches me, indicates that even though we still desired to depend upon Europe for this vital necessj_ty to the domestic sugar in­ dustry and to resume our former relations with a nation whtch has so grossly violated a11 established rules and laws of civilization, difficulty will be experienced in securing seed, and prices wi 11 be much higher than they were before the war. The following letter would a:r-pear to be worthy of careful considera­ tion at our forthcoming Annual Meeting and it is with this i.n view that I am rlacing a copy in the hands of each member, in advance of the meeting, Resi::ectfully. Trurran G. Palmer. PALMER'S CURRENT NEWS BULLETINS The loose leaf service "Concernine Suear" includes only such data as is of permanent value to the • • • • • • suear industry; to supplement this, these unofficial news bulJetins are issued for circulation amone- members of the U, S. Suear Ma_nuf~cturers.1 Assoct.mon and covers_ subJects w~1ch are of temporary interest only, such as foreien and domestic suear•bcet seed, coal and other supplies, cost of beets. labor supvl>:, proposed or enacted _Ie21slauon, tesumony before Conrress1onal commntces, etc., etc. Such comments and observations as these bulletins contain are to be considered merely as BUl?'fC&tions for reflecu~n and not as. ex~~essme the I!'atured thourht of either the writer or of members of the Association. Comments frequently are based upon unconfirmed newspaper reports and should be considered as beannf the headline Imponant 1f True." -TRUMAN G. FALKER. (36) (CO FY) KONINKLYKE BEET~ORTELZAAD-CULTUR KUHN & CO. , NAARDEN, NA/1.RDEN, 14th • .of March, 1919, (HOLLAND) Mr. Truman G. Palmer, Union ·rrust Building, 901, Washington, D. c. Dear Sir:- Your fa.vor of 5th. of last month, answering our cable 26th. of ,January, duly to ha.ud. We take the liberty to remember to our resrects of 4th of February, 1911, in Which letter we have hinted already on the politic influences in order to make the American Beet Sugar Industry freE, from European politic influences, Now the sitU,~tion of the sugar-beet seed produce rrarket is in an extraordinary b::i.d condition, as by r evolt in Easten and Central Europe gi£7owing of sugar beet seed in large quantity in Europe is entirely finished. We therefore cabled you that in the next decennary there will be a total absence of sugar-beet seed in Europe, viz,, in the world. You write us, you have been growing some seed with varying success. We understand very wull the meaning of your expression 11 with varying· success". Sugar-beet seed only can be grown on basis of a scientific selection, that means a selection of families proved in exr,erirnental fields, after several years r e­ searches. We have r€ad your book about sugar "'b eet seE'd, issued in London 1918, with great interest, but it is very clear to us, that for making the Ameri can Sugar Beet Industry entirely free from Eurore it takes at lea.st ten yea:~s ::or mA..king a selection based on a scientific basis, fit for producing a sugar-beet sPed able to nake comretition to good old Eurorean strains; therefore it if! de·­ s:rable and necessary to have as a pith and basis of the concern, a prime selec­ t".on. As you write in your above mentioned book, it is necessary to draw mo ther beet seed from Euror,e, but in every case it is necessary to draw YEARLY a quantity of mother beet seed from Euror,e in order to prevent degeneration of the seed. Since you visited us in 1909 in our manner of working and method of selection has been very much altered and improved, the givings you mention in your book are all before we practiced the family selection, All your givings sr,eak s'.;ill about a shortage of yield of our strain, but after 19i0 we ha.ve improved tne weight of beets in our strain in such a way that since 1913 we are on the first place about yield of tonnage of beets as well as in richness of sugar. As shows the annex copy of results on exr,erimental fields in 1912 in F!'ance, 1913 in Italy and Holland, we are the first of all in every r espect in F:~ance, Italy and Holland, only at the sugar manufactory "Holland" near Amster­ d~m, Klein Wanzieben gives 700 Kilos more in yield but the shortage in sugar of K, W. makes Kuhn & Co. prime with 425 KG, of sugar more per H. A. Moreover we have had a brilliant success in Sweden, The Svenska Sock­ erfatriks .Aktieholaget has bought from us our method of selection; growing the seed according our instructions from mother beet seed cultivated and selected under our responsibility. PALMER'S CURRENT NEWS BULLETINS The l~ose leaf service "Concernine Suear'' includes only such data as isol permanent value to the , . • . surar industry; to supplement this. these unofficial news bulletins are issued for circulation amonr members of the U, S. Sufar Ma_nuf~cturers . Assoc1atton and covers_ subJects w~1ch arc of temporary interest only, such as foreh?n and domestic suear•beet seed, coal and other supplies, cost of beets, labor suppl~, proposed or enacted _Ierislauon, testimony befor~ Conrress1onal committees, etc .. etc. Such comments and observations as these bulletins contain are to be considered merely 31 surrestions for reflecu~n and not as. cx~~essinr the ~atured tboufht of either the writer or of members of the Association. Comments frequently are based upon unconfirmed newspaper reports and should be consider d as beannir the headline lmponant 1f True." -TRUMAN G. p ALIIBR. e (37) The situation of the article sugar-beet seed~ f rmerly only produced in Central and East~rr, Eu.rope, and ex:r.;orted from the well knowr_ growing z?la.ce s to a.11 v.gar-beet cultivating countries, is n0w quit~ altered. Growing sugar-beet seed ·n Ru s 3ia is over for a great many years and Germany has suffered on such a scale that not only the selection of the well known sugar-beet seed growers is degenerated, but the present situation is in such a horrible state that all has been destroyed, therefore there is no question more about selection of 3ugar beets in Central Eurjpe, and in consequence thereof there is no more suga~~beet seed in Etrrope and will not be grown more in next time, As Holland is too small for growing sugar-beet seed for export purfoses, we are occupying ourselves to take steps for grow:l.ng sugar beet seed, resulting from ou.r mother beet seed, as well in Belgium as in France. 1.7e enclose you here­ with a copy of a pamphlet in ¼hich is clearly shovm the advantages for growing sugar-beet seed in the shortest time in France, r e sul ~; :..ng from our mother beet seed. The whole s~.tuation of the sugar manufactm•ing world is altered and the g1 v1ngs compared in your "Sugar at a Gb.nce" about J.abor and costs are not more in force, especia1ly about wages for peoplo. Formerly men, women and children were working in Agricultu~e at a trifling in Eastern and Central Euxope, but in futuxe all this work is to be done by machine power. As the U. S. of America have still great interest in the beet sugar concern, we there fore prorose ~rou to establish a compan,.,v on coo:p':lrati ve basis on the following condHions: l• The firm of KL1hn & Co. supplies the mother beet seed, g. The firm of Ki~:n 2: C0. is ,:illing to supply also the staff and a great deal of the people growing sugA.r beet seed for account of said comra,ny. 2.• As the beet sugar manufacturers of the U. s, and Canada are the most interest­ ed in the concern, it would be the best to interest them by money matters as shareholders and cooperators.

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