Czech, Wohanka & Co, Sugar Beet Seed Seal
Czech, Wohanka & Co, Sugar Beet Seed Seal Image & Found by Clarence Clancy McIntire.
Found in California, USA, ?mm.
PRAG, (WO)HANKA & CO(M?) around // 19?0, ZUCKE[RR]EICHER around
From the finder, "looks like it was from a sugar beet seed bag from the "Wohanka & Co" seed breeders of Prague, likely early 1900s. The area I found it in has a history of having the first commercially successful sugar beet mill in the United States."
From Paul Cannon, "The right hand image appears to contain the German word ‘ZUCKE[RR]EICHER’ ie ‘richer in sugar’. In the centre appears to be a date, perhaps ‘19x0’. Left hand image contains the German word for Prague ie ‘Prag’.
Following Clarence’s suggestion this led to the following site about the businessman Joseph Wohanka. His several business interests, which were widespread, included ‘trading machinery, equipment and raw materials, especially for the sugar industry’ …. ‘contact with the sugar industry led him to the idea of establishing a station for breeding beet seed, which had been imported to Bohemia until then, mainly from Germany. He established breeding stations in Hostovice and Leopoldsdorf, the first of their kind in the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire. Then he became the owner of a large estate in Uholicky near Prague, where he founded a modern station where he concentrated on the cultivation of beet seed. Under the Wohanka Original brand it was exported to France, Belgium, Italy, the United States and a number of other countries.’ Česká Wikipedie, otevřená encyklopedie. For a report on Wohanka’s sugar beet seeds see English annual report of the Sugar Beet Seed Breeding Station of Wohanka & Co., Prague, Bohemia, Austria 2 1909.
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