If some one were to discover a plant sport 
or if some plant breeder could cross sunflowers 
or corn with potatoes to get a plant, the tops oi 
which would make silage and at the same time 
produce valuable tubers that would outyield 
potatoes two or three to one, under similar soil 
and moisture conditions we would hail the result 
as a wonderful discovery. 
GIRASOL will do all this and more and yet 
it is not NEW for it has been raised in Europe 
for centuries under another name. France alone 
produced 1,696,030 long tons in 1928 so our Con¬ 
sul at Paris writes us. 
We call this crop GIRASOL because the 
name under which it sometimes passes is the 
same as another vegetable entirely different,, 
which is confusing. The scientific name is Hel- 
ianthus Tuberosus, it is related to both artichokes 
and sunflowers, it is a native of America, not 
Jeruselam or elsewhere. 
Encyclopedia Americana says “Perhaps no 
other plant is of easier cultivation.” 
GIRASOL tubers will outyield potatoes two 
or three to one under similar conditions. Yields 
of 10 to 20 tons per acre are common. 
GIRASOL tops are about a third or half the 
diameter of sunflower stalks but usually two or 
three feet taller and yields 10 to 22 tons silage 
per acre. 
GIRASOL is not injured by freezing. The 
whole or a part of the crop of tubers may be 
harvested in the fall or the spring following. 
GIRASOL 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 cul¬ 
tivated crops. 
All stock and poultry like Girasol tubers, but 
perhaps the most 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 
considered NET PROFIT The silage crcfp would 
