A New Industry.
What promises/Jto _jt£«ggtsg(iE portant new agricultural industry is about to be inaugurate _}by g. D> Cone, a South Dakota farmer, who who will this year pla_S. fiftO acres of Russian sunflowers. The yield is 30 to 50 bui-hels of seed- per acre, producing about one gallon of oil per bushel. The oil is high-priced, and is what is known as the nearest approach to the oil of the olife. After the oil has been extracted, tbti. seed meal makes a splendid cake for cattle and horse feed, much superft_r, in fact, to that made from the flix. Then the stalks, which will number about 13,000 to the acre-, will yield five to six cords of fuel about ecfual to wood, and worth in the neighbourhood of 15 dollars per acre.
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Manawatu Herald, 3 December 1895, Page 2
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133A New Industry. Manawatu Herald, 3 December 1895, Page 2
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