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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE 
Bureau of Agricultural Economics 
Economic Library List No. 20 
Washington, D. C. , April 1941 
THE SUNFLOWER, .ITS CULTIVATION AKD USES 
A Selected List of References 
Compiled "by Annie M. Hannay 
Library, Bureau of Agricultural Economics 
Sources examined in the compilation of this list are 
the card catalogues of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture Library and the Bureau, of Agricultural Economics 
Library; the Botanical Catalogue of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry Library; Agricultural Economics Literature, 
1928-1940; Agricultural Index, 1919-Sept. 1940; Experi- 
ment Station Record, 1912-1940; Public Affairs Informa- 
tion Service Bulletin, 1930-Mar. 1941; Industrial Arts 
Index, 1913-1940.; Readers' Guide to Periodical Litera- 
ture, 1910-Eeb. 25, 1941; International Index to 
Periodicals, 1920- Jan. 1941. 
Call numbers following the citations are these of 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture Library. 
Abitia, Luis J. El cultivo del girasol. Mexico. Secretaria de Rela- 
cicnes Exteriores. Revista del Comercio Exterior 5(4): 35-40. 
Sept. 1940. -286.8 N575 . , 
Describes the sunflower plant, the advantages in growing it, 
methods of cultivation and uses of the seed, and concludes that 
sunflower cultivation in Mexico, in addition to being more valu- 
able than corn because of its .resistence. to drought, frost, in- 
sect attack and disease, may be used to overcome the practice of 
planting the land one year and letting it lie fallow the next, 
since the sunflower plant restores the necessary elements to 
the soil. 
