120 SUNFLOWER OIL. 



not made very fine, for which we paid 12^ cents per 

 bushel as toll. The value of bone dust as a manure, in 

 Great Britain, may be judged of from the following 

 rates of prices, which we quote from one of the most 

 recent agricultural publications: — ''The price com- 

 monly averages, for the dust, from 2s. 6d. to 3s. and in 

 some late instances even 3s. 6d. have been paid for 

 pieces of [inch, three quarter inch and half inch] from 

 2s. to 3s. 6d. according to size ; and Is. lOd. for rough 

 bones per imperial bushel.'' — Br. Hush. The reader 

 will bear in mind that the English shilling is a frac- 

 tion over 22 cents. Prices have not attained this 

 high pitch with us. The English dealers make no 

 allowance on bones which have gone through th-e pro- 

 cess of boiling, though this process evidently deprives 

 them of a portion of their oil, and consequently di- 

 minishes, in a measure, their enriching properties. — 

 Albany Cultivator. 



SUNFLOWER OIL. 



Few individuals of the country are aware of the 

 quantities of olive and almond oils, usually called 

 sweet oils, imported annually into this country from 

 abroad ; and the number is perhaps still less who know 

 that in the oil of the common sunflower seed is found 

 a substitute equal in every respect to the oils of France 

 and Italy. Like all plants of such large and rapid 

 growth that mature their seeds the first year, the sun- 

 flower exhausts soils rapidly ; but where its cultivation 

 has been attempted, it has paid large profits. The oil 

 is extracted as from linseed, and the cake or residuum 

 is, like that, excellent for feeding cattle. The follow- 

 ing extract is from a letter of J. Smith, Esq. of Mary- 

 land, to H. E. Ellsworth, of Washington city : 



" I planted about an acre of ground a few years since- 



