Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1920 — The Sunflower In Russia. [ARTICLE]

The Sunflower In Russia.

Rimftower cultivation has become an Industry In southern Russia, where the people have found the seeds a substitute for olives in making oil. The Russian eats the kernel. An acre of sunflowers yields about 60 bushels of seeds, and these in turn yield more than 60 gallons of oU.