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Show I THE SUNFLOWER IN OGDEN At the corner of Twenty-seventh street and Washington avenue 1 is a vacant lot on which there is growing com and sunflowers thn' I attract the attention of those who go by. i The tassels of the corn hide the weed to the west, thc-v are so U high, and the stalks of the sunflowers are ten feet high and many of j the sunflowers are s foot across the disk. Evidently the corn and sun i flowers are to be used for silage In a day's drive b auto to the northeast of Ogden, fields may ! he seen in which nothing other than sunflowers are grown They are i not wild sunflowers but the Russian variety with the large flowers il and numerous seeds and are cultivated, to be chopped UP and placed i in the silos, making excellent provender for cattle. Chicken raisers j use the seed snd obtain good results. ,j This product of the earth long neglected is being made to serve purposes qf ninn in a most profitable manner |