The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-07-02

10 any ktnu OF O1i-Cake or c0tton-Seed
meal for feeding to cattle designed for
slaughter.
Again it is stated that sunflower-
seed produces more and better oil than
;faxseed, and that it can be used in the
place of raw or boiled linseed oil for
painting or making varnishes. The
oil, it is stated, can be extracted much
easier than it can from flaxseed, while
the cake is quite as valuable as that OBJ
tanned in the manufacture of linseed
oil. hcueufiy it has been stated that
suntlower oil, when clarified, is as val
liable as that obtained from olives for
table purposes, as for salad dressing.
anu that it can be used in the place of
olive oil for preserving fish, or employ
ed instead OF hog lard for cooking pur-
poses. Some have stated from infor-
nation derived from travellers or resi-
dents that vast tracts of land in Russia,
Austria, and the former dependencies
of Turkey are devoted to the produc-
ton Of sunfiowers, that great estab
lishments are in operation for the
manufacture of oil, and that thousands
of cattle are fattened on sunflower-seed
cake. A few have declared that the
olive oil brought from Italy ID largely
adulterated with the oil extracted from
suntiower-seed, and that the sardines
put up in southern Europe ARE preserv-
ed in sunflower-seed OIL
occasionally farmer. living in a
'treeless portion of the west, where coal
is scarce and dear. and the roads are
very poor ''rnshes into print and de
clares that his house was warmed, his
food cooked, and the water for laundry
purposes boiled during an entire year
by the use of the stalks of suntlowers
that grew on an acre of land. Occa-
sionally an old horseman, who always
neglects to give his name and resi-,
dence, states that the leaves of the sun
flower are much more valuable thanthe
foliage of the rosin weed for feeding 20
horses. This authority who withholds
his name and postoilice address. also
states tslat the yield of cured leaves is
fully as large per acre as that of timo-
thy hay. In fixing up an old horse for
trading purposes. and for curing all ills
that horse .'fiesh is heir to-. he recon-
mends sunf1ower leaves. Cut from the
stalks when they are of full size and
carefully cured, they have the merit of
being both food and medicine That
sunflower stalks will support the vines
Of Lima beans and morning glories w.
have the assurance of numerous gar
deners and florists. Oscar Wilde as
sures lis that the suntlower is q 'ahing
of beauty" and various medical au-
thorities declare that the growing
plants absorb foul vapors from the air
II half that has been said and written
in praise of the sunilower is true it is
deserving of great and most careful at
tention. A plant that will ad orn the
farm. purify the air that passes over it.
furnish fuel, provide bean-pnles, supply
food for man. beast, or fowl, and yield
an oil that is valuable for painting. pre-
serving, and eating should be cultivated
by everyone who owns or occupies land
ii half that is said about the value OF
the suntlower is true there are mil
lions in it, and farmers have no occa
sion to complain of hard times. They
have only to plant srntlowers. and BE-
prosperous and happy. 1t is affirmed
that this crop is adapted to every por-
ton of our vast territory from the AT.
| lantic to the Pacific, and from the Gull
of Mexico to the great northern lakes.
The yield of the seed is large whore the
seasons are short, and very large whers
they are long. The plant iloursles
well on the little hill farms of New En-
| gland, and on the great uninclosed
plains of the west. 1t is admitted thai
a crop is .'hard on land" but the like
is true of wheat, cotton, AID tobacco
and they are not discarded on this ac
count. Some of our rich bottom lanl
would produce several successive crop:
/ of srntlowers without having their fei'
tility essentially diminished