228 TwENTY-FiEST Biennial Eepobt 



out in wagon bottoms. Where raised on an extensive 

 scale, machines are used for the threshing of these 

 seeds. 



Care should be taken in the selection of seed for this 

 crop, as there are varieties of sunfowers which have 

 several heads to the stalk, and others which have only 

 one head. The latter variety is preferable, on account 

 of its lighter weight. The stalks with four or five heads 

 are more easily blown down. It is claimed by some 

 growers of sunflowers that the seed is not damaged by 

 reason of being on the ground for many days, but it has 

 been found in Fulton county that seeds which remain on 

 the ground for several days are .unfit for the market. 



As an emergency crop, the sunflower will, no doubt, 

 be found of good value, and under the right weather 

 conditions will prove profitable. While it does not rank 

 as on"e of the staple and dependable crops of western 

 Kentucky, the increased use of sunflower seeds for 

 chicken feed, and as a source of obtaining oil for the 

 manufacture of certain soaps, indicates the possibility 

 of an ultimate demand sufficient to justify more attention 

 to its growth. 



PRODUCTION OF HONEY IN KENTUCKY. 

 By E. E. Barton, Falmouth. 



The honey crop is produced by professional bee 

 men, farmers and suburban and village residents 

 throughout the State, and also by gathering the honey of 

 wild bees domiciled in trees and other recesses, where 

 the "robbing" is usually accompanied by destruction 

 of the swarm. No estimate can be made of the amount 

 of wild honey gathered, but a considerable quantity is 

 obtained in this way. 



The largest part of the honey crop is produced by 

 keepers of only a few colonies of bees, and much of this 

 is consumed in the immediate locality. However, on ac- 

 count of the great number of small bee keepers, a con- 

 siderable amount of honey is produced by them in the 



