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Alexandrow, Alexandre. Informe preliminar sobre el cultivo del "girasol" 
en Venezuela. El Agricultor Venezolano 4(49) : 18-22. Mayd94C.' 
9.95 Ag8 
The writer describes the conditions needed for sunflower cultiva- 
tion and methods"of growing it, and discusses the cost of production, 
the uses of the sunflower and its importance to Venezuela. 
Amos, Arthur, and Woodman, Herbert Ernest. Sunflower silage. Jour. 
Agr. Sci. 13(2): 163-168. Apr. 1923. 1C J822 
Gives the results of an experiment in which the sunflower was 
grown for silage. A comparison is made "between the composition 
of green sunflower and sunflower silage. "The results. . .indicate 
that the absolute amount of crude protein, underwent little or no 
change during ensilage... As a source of digest ible protein, sun- 
flower is, .. inferior to oats and tares... the sunflower protein 
suffered a slight depression of digest ibility during storage in 
the silo.., 
"The writers do not, from a consideration of the findings in 
this preliminary trial,"" feel prepared .as yet to recommend the mak- 
ing of sunflower silage on a large scale for feeding to stock." 
The Argentine vegetable oil industry. Impressive increase in sunflower 
seed oil production.- pev. River Plate 88(2532): 21-23. . June 21, 
1940. 286.8 P.32 . - ' 
"The latest industrial statistical survey carried out by the 
National Statistical Department and published -in the customary form 
of a report addressed to the Minister of Finance is identified with 
the production in Argentina of edible oils. The report just pub- 
lished comprises a census of the edible oil industry as at December 
31, 1938, with the analogous statistical comparisons corresponding 
to the years 1937 and 1935." As far as sunflower is concerned, 
tables give quantities and values of seed consumed by edible oil 
factories, quantities and values of oil, oilcake, and flour pro- 
duced in the above mentioned years, and amount of oil produced 
annually 1924-1925, 1927-1938. 
Attention is called to the "enormously increased production of 
sunflower seed oil in 1938 as compared with the two former years. . 
At 55,752,703 kilos in 1938, sunflower seed oil production repre- . 
sented an increase of 100.6 per cent, over the 1937 period, and 
no less than 769.9 per cent, over the 1935 result." 
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Argentine vegetable oil production. 248$ increase in ten years: huge 
supplies from cotton seed and sunflower seed. P.ev. P.iver Plate 
89(2541): 15, 17. Aug. 23, 1940. 286.8 P.32 
"Argentina's progress in vegetable oil production in the past 
decade is impressively revealed in a Ministry of Agriculture sta- 
tistical report issued during the past week with special refer- 
ence to production during 1939." 
