pleasuro-grounds, than for the valuable proposes'for which it 
may he used : In America, where it is more extensively culti- 
vated, it is looked upon as a most profitable article of pro- 
duction. In American publications, the seeds are said to be 
more oleaginous than those of the Flax plant, and combine the 
qualities for table use of the best Olive oil ; for burning, of the 
best sperm, without its smoke ; and for painting, it is said by 
painters who have used it to be superior to linseed, and it is 
more rapid in drying, equally easy in spreading, and without 
forming a much denser coat : Prepared and eaten as artichocks 
the young cups of the plant are very esculent and pleasing to the 
palate ; the stalks are an excellent substitute for hemp or 
flax, and for Bee pasturage it is equal to any plant, yielding, 
from its luscious and numerous nectaries, an abundance of the 
best and most palatable honey. One writer says, that on sui- 
table soil, with proper cultivation, it will yield on an average 
of from eighty to one hundred bushels of seed to the acre. — From 
five to seven quarts of oil are calculated on per bushel . — If this 
is not over estimating its productiveness — and if it can be 
raised as cheaply as wheat or Indian corn, ordinarily consi- 
dered the most valuable crops cultivated — the Sunflower must 
be a very profitable production. We have, heretofore, cul- 
tivated it on a small scale, usually in vacant spots, by the 
fences, and in places where the cultivation of other vegetables 
was ineligible, and, so far as our experience goes, it corro- 
borates the above assertions. We find that the green leaves 
are very excellent fodder for coius, especially when the feed in 
our pastures gets low, in seasons of scarcity, and drought. 
We generally commence plucking them in July, taking the 
lower leaves first, and feeding them out at night ; or, if the 
scarcity of feed is great, in the morning before turning them 
from their yards, we have sometimes given them corn top- 
pings and the leaves of the Sunflowor at the same time, and 
have found that the latter are invariably preferred. The seed 
of the Sunflower is a most desirable food for poultry, its high- 
ly oleaginous nature wholly superseding the necessity of 
animal food.” 
