Show I THE USEFUL SUNFLOWER I The uses of the sun flower seem to be I many and varied A paper read by George 1 jr Weber before tho Worcester club of Shippack Pennsylvania says The apiarian will find a bonanza In the I sun flower which is very rich In honey and as the plant is almost proof against j I drought the bees will find It a harvest when other flowers are yielding no honey The honey so gathered is of excellent I quality The paper further said one of the most valuable properties of this flower Is its use as feed for stock especially for I milch cows It was found on feeding the seed ground with oats that it increased I the tow of milk and raised the percentage of butter quite materially sufllclently sucienty so ito ito i-to warrant the farmer in raising it for feed I feel feedThe sun flower has perhaps been best I I and longest known a a valuable food for i poultry by many regarded the greatest I egg producer known Thp seed is relished I by the fowls and it la conducive I to their R Jr sl rf f et health An Important feature of the sunflower Ice I Dower crop Is the large amount of seed produced from we acreage Thirty i I bushels of seed were raised from one I third of an acre the ground was not ma nured and thIs in the dry summer of lit sIr Weber thinks from this showing show-Ing that under favorable conditions on manured land from 10 to 150 bushels toi I the acre might be raised i In Minnesota where timber is very I scarce and coal very high In price the sun lower is raised for fuel it is said one I acre in flowers will furnish a years supply sup-ply In fuel for a family the heads the I seeds and the stalks all being used I |