GIRASIOL is propagated by tubers only, not 
from roots and joints like quack grass and 
thistles so it can not become a serious pest if 
followed with pasture, hay meadow or good culti¬ 
vated crops. 
All stock and poultry like Girasol tubers, but 
perhaps the moist profitable use would be as hog 
feed, the hogs doing their own harvesting with 
no expense. Trials along this line have yielded 
744 pounds pork gain per acre, this might be con¬ 
sidered NET PROFIT. The silage crop would bs 
more than enough to cover cost of seed, land 
rental and cultivation expense. Adding grain to 
balance the ration would of course help. 
GIRASOL may be eaten raw or cooked, but 
the inulin in girasol that replaces starch in most 
other vegetables need not be cooked to bring out 
its food value. 
Millions of people have to limit their use of 
starchy foods which may well be substituted by 
girasol in which the carbohydrates are in the 
form of inulin instead of starch. 
The planting should be done in rows so the 
silage can be out with a com binder and (the 
tubers dug with a potato digger. 
This crop will grow on most any kind of 'soil 
but the richer the better of course, but it will do 
better on poor soil than most any other crop. 
