THE SUNFLOWER CROP.
Few realise that the sunflower can become an important crop. In some parts of North America it is freely grown, not for its seed, but as a green crop to be fed to cattle either in its fresh state or after preservation in what is called a silo.' Cattle are very fond of it, and it makes a splendid fattening food. It is a fine sight to see a field of giant sunflower plants, as tall as a man, awaiting the reaper. The plants are mown as if they were corn, and when it is required to store them for winter use they are chopped into little pieces—heads, stalks, and all—and compressed in . underground pits. This is what is called the ensilage method, and is applied to a variety of crops in different parts’of the world, when it is required to preserve them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21258, 12 February 1931, Page 7
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146THE SUNFLOWER CROP. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21258, 12 February 1931, Page 7
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