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Show SI N i l.ou ER NO LOGGER LOWIY; is ARISTOCRAT (Bj iilcrnatiqna'l Nmya Service.) STRVTII M iKK, Alta The Sun-flower Sun-flower oner V.il.i :i Wn i now it s a crop. H was once worthless, now it Is money in the hank. It was once cut down and left to rot, now it Is carefully cultivated. It was a plebeian, U has become an aristocrat; The ugly duckling, as It were, has turned out a BWah. 1 Twenty-eight hend of cle en-months-old cattle havo just been sold from the supply farm of the Canadian Pacific railway near Stralhmorc. Their average weight was 721 pounds. They brought an average of $10.90 each, making the price of this baby beef $15.25 a hundredweight. i They had been fattened on sunflower sunflow-er silage. The success of this experiment experi-ment bus renewed the interest of farmers in sunflowers as a foder and Uo crop The former worthless weed will nod its great bloms ahoe hundreds hun-dreds of acres In Alberta this summer. It bldj fair to become one of tho important im-portant crops of the province. oo |