VEGETABLE OIL
PRODUCT OF SUNFLOWER SEED. The humble sunflower may replace the sugar-ane as Cuba’s greatest agricultural crop. Many planters, weary of trying to make ends meet by growing sugar-cane have applied to the Hershey sugar mill, at Hershey, Cuba, for sunflower seeds, and now hundreds of acres formerly planted in cane are covered with yellow blossoms. Sunflower cultivation offers the Cuban farmer a profitable crop twice ji year, compared to the npw unprofitable cane crop once a year. Expensive mills ar centrals required for grinding sugar-cane are not necessary for extracting the easily-market-ahle oil from the sunflower seeds. A large market already exists in Cuba for vegetable oil from the sunflower seed. This oil, its backers claim, excels olive oil, now imported in great quantities from Italy and Spain, for cooking purposes. The sunflower flourishes in the Tauranga district and if the demand warranted it this crop could be grown on a large scale and turned to profitable account.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10905, 3 September 1932, Page 3
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