Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1895 — A Sunflower Clock. [ARTICLE]

A Sunflower Clock.

Kansas has often been called tbs Sunflower State—a title more than ever appropriate since the foreman upon Governor Motley's farm constructed his sunflower clock. Choosing an enormous sunflower, he attached to its drooping head a tiny cornstalk, not more than ten feet long. About the plant he drew a circle, and divided it into twentyfour parts, each of which was subdivided for minutes and seconds. And now, as the faithful plantfrom dawn till dusk eyes its fierce lord, the cornstalk pointer moves about the dial, indicating the time. The sunflower clock can also be used as a stop watch to time races by holding over it a big umbrella, which checks the revolution upon the instant, when the time to a fraction of a second may be read off on the dial*