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U. S. Dept. of agriculture. Office of foreign agricultural relations. 
Argentine vegetable- cil production increased in 1939. U. S. Dept. 
Agr* Off. Foreign Agr. Relations* Foreign Crops and Markets 4l(ll): 
367, processed. Sept. 16, 1940; 1*9 St2F 
"Sunflower .seed shows the greatest volume, accounting for 64 
percent of the total 1939 production." 
The amount of seed crushed and oil produced in 1939 is given. 
U. S. Dept. of agriculture. Office of foreign agricultural relations. 
Sunflower cultivation in Rumania to "be expanded. U. S. Dept. Agr. 
Off. Foreign Agr. Relations. • Foreign Crops and Markets 41 (19): 694, 
processed. Nov. 12, 1940. 1.9 St2F 
"Germany appears to "be cooperating closely with Rumania in 
developing cultivation of sunflower seed in the latter country. 
German interests are active through their participation in a German- 
Rumanian oilseed organization called ■ Solagra. ' It is reported that 
this company was instrumental in sowing a large area to sunflowers 
this year, and the expansion is- expected to be much greater in 1941. 
The latest production figures available for all of Rumania are for 
1938, when the output was approximately 509 million pounds. Over 
70 percent of this amount was produced in Bessarabia and about 8 
percent in Transylvania, now ceded to the Soviet Union and Hungary, 
respectively. " 
U. S. Dept. of agriculture. Office of foreign agricultural relations. 
United States foreign trade in agricultural products, 1939-40. 
U. S. Dept. Agr. Off. Foreign Agr. Relations. Foreign Crops and 
Markets 41(9): 295-328, processed. Sept. 5, 1940. (Sup. to issue 
of Sept. 3, 1940) 1.9 St2F 
Imports of sunflower oil are given for 1938/39 as 271,000,000 
lbs. of a value of $13,000. 
U. S. Dept. of commerce. Bur. of the census. Animal and vegetable fats 
and oils; production, consumption, imports, 'exports and stocks. 
Quarterly for calendar years 1935 to 1939. 29pp. Washington, D..C.,1940, 
157.41 An52 
Contains tables which give imports of sunflower seed oil for 
consumption 1935 to 1938 and factory consumption in 1935 and 1936. 
For earlier years see earlier reports. 
Varadachar, K. S. Synthesis of proteins in plants. Part I. Conversion 
of nitrates into protein in Eelianthus annuus, Linn. Indian' Inst. 
Sci. Jour. 16A(12): 129-138. 1933. 513 In23 
"A direct method of feeding of plants with nutrients is described. 
This technique has been applied to the study of protein synthesis 
by feeding nitrogen- starved sunflower plants with potassium nitrate 
solution and studying the attendant changes. 
"There is evidence to suggest that there is continuous conversion 
of nitrate into other forms of nitrogen. The added nitrogen would 
appear to pass through the amide stage before being converted into 
•protein." 
