Show GROWING SUNFLOWERS Sunflower seed a an oil protlucin seed and as feed stuff particularly for poultry is exciting Son attention in various parts of the country and this fat led a Mr Duncan an extensive cotton grower of Mississippi t visit Russia last year wdlih a view to obtaining ob-taining information dh regard to he culture o the sunflower plant in hat country He returns theme with a large amount informathion on the subject a is natural after special study an < among other things says The Russians who grow the plant generally saw the seed after a crop of wheat and rye harvested from the land o < j J < < 1 Some sow after oats and buckwheat but have found it less profitable t sow after the latter as the buctowheat takes up such a large per cent of potassium po-tassium from the soil that the flower I does not pay I thrives and heads well after crops of rye and clover The land intended t toe planted is thor < oughly plowed in the fall and left until un-til the next spring at which time the seeds are sown either in drills or broadcast If in rows they are planted from twelve to twentyfour inches apart depending largely on the fertility of the soil On some of the 11 ch black lands they grow four to six crops without resting the land |