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Show 'KANSAS HAS. No Longer the Great Sunflower State of The Union Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 10. Like "carrying coal to Newcastle," a carload car-load of sunflower seed passed through here today billed from Euiopo to Kan. sas, the great "Sunflower state." "What on earth are Kansans importing im-porting sunflower seed for7" ihe manager man-ager of a seed company was asked. "Why don't thei' use their own soed?" "That's an interesting story," weht on the manager. "The seed from tho Kansas sunflower is just as good aa any, but the peoplo don't gather it any more. They aie so aristocratic that thoy buy the imported product. Twenty yearB ago we handled sunflower sun-flower seed from Kansas by the carload car-load for poultry feed in the oast, but that Is now a forgotten industry." Topeka, Kas., Fob. 10. When the Kansas City dispatch was read to Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture F. D Coburn, today, ho laughed and said it was unique. ''As to the commercial use of sunflower sun-flower seed," he said, "I have lived in Kansas forty-five years, and I never saw a bushel of commercial seed. I proBiimo tlrco have been times when a little, here and there, was raised for 'commercial purposes, but I never saw it I doubt if there is much shipped in here for poultry feed. "This Is supposed to be the great sunflower state, and we are supposed to wallow iu sunflowors, but they are not commercial sunflowers." |