Show the time e of the tl sunflower the harvest time of the sunflower can scarcely scirce lyba be fixed as it depends not only upon the climate but also upon the th nature of the soil and the exposure of the plantation in the south and southwest of european russia it ripens about the middle of september further north at the end of september or beginning of october on sandy bandy soil it ripens about the middle of aut august on black earth lands at the end of august and on lower grounds still later from this it may be seen that the sunflower wherever it wows bows ripens later than any other corn plant a very important fact in agriculture as its harvesting does not interfere with the garvestin har harvesting vestin i 9 of other crops when the ahe sunflower e r is ii overripe over its yellow flowers wither the stall stalk and the seed eed cup from the top become gray all the leaves of the flower covering coT erint the seeds fall off a and aad ad the seeds get hard hoot out from the seed cup and crack open P at this time the plant should be well guarded from the birds or the overripe seeds will soon bo be destroyed by them akem cor st louis globe democrat |