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Allowing the air-dry crop to contain twenty per cent of moisture, the 
yield per acre of dry substance was four thousand five hundred and sev- 
enty-six pounds, containing 7.44 per cent, or three hundred and forty 
pounds ofalbuminoid. The largest yield of fodder corn here reported 
contained but three hundred and fifty-nine pounds. The Soja bean, 
therefore, yielded nearly as much in chemically nutritive value as did 
maize. ‘There is much woody matter, however, in the Soja bean 
plant, and experiments in feeding must determine its actual value. 
‘T’he season was so cold and unfavorable that the cow peas did not 
fulfill the expectation raised by last year’s trial. As far as this year is 
concerned, these beans offer no inducements toward their general use 
for forage purposes. A warm summer would, perhaps, however, de- 
velop a different judgment. 
SUNFLOWER. 
From a late article in the Drug Reporter we obtain some statistics 
relating to the growing of the sunflower as acrop. In Italy its culti- 
vation is confined to the neighborhood of Piove and Conegliano, in 
Venetia; in Russia the plant is most extensively grown in Kielce and 
' Podolia, and the district of Birutch in Voronej; the production of 
seed is now estimated at 288,000,000 pounds from an area of 216,000 
acres, or about 1,325 pounds to the acre. In Tartary and China it is 
cultivated in immense quantities, but no actual statistics are availa- 
ble. In Mysore, India, one acre of land gives 1,288 pounds of seed, 
which yields forty-five gallons of oil,.which is there compared to pea- 
nut oil, and applied to the same use. ‘The Russian seed is expressed 
on the spot, and the oil is largely employed for adulterating olive oil. 
The purified oil is considered equal to olive and almond oil for table 
use. 
The chief industrial uses of the oil are woolen dressing, lighting, 
and candle and soap making; for the last-mentioned purpose it is su- 
perior to most oils. It is pale yellow in color, thicker than hemp seed 
oil, and dries slowly. 
Experimental culture in France gave a return of 1,778 pounds of - 
seed, yielding fifteen per cent of oil and eighty per cent of cake from 
an acre ; but the product varies considerably according to soil, climate - 
and culivation, and the average may be roundly stated at fifty bushel 
of seed from an acre, and one gallon of oil from one bushel of seed. 
The percentage of oi] to seed ranges from sixteen to twenty-eight, and | 
that of husk to. kernel from forty-one to sixty. 
In Russia the seed is drilled into lines eighteen inches apart, and the 
plants are thinned out to thirty inches apart in the rows, thus giving 
about 11,000 plants to an acre. ‘The quantity of seed required for an 
acre is forty-six pounds. 
The station crop of 1883 occupied a plat of one-twentieth of an 
acre area, and was planted four kernels in a hill, the hills forty-two by 
forty-four inches apart, and was cultivated during growth the same as 
corn. The soil received at the rate of four hundred pounds of super- 
phosphate to the acre. Planted May 18, vegetated May 31, harvested 
in September, and the seed beaten out and measured and weighed Oc- 
tober 25, the yield being two and one-half bushels, or fifty-seven and 
and one-half pounds; expressed in acre yield, fifty bushels, or 1,150 
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