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NEW YORK. DECEMBER 24. 1021 
Entered as Second-('las3 Matter. June 26. 1879. at the Post 
Office at New York. N. Y.. under the Act of March 3. 1879. 
No. 4070 
A Few More Remarks About Kudzu 
W E have had several notes about kudzu, the 
proposed pasture and forage plant: here is 
more information about it. This week the facts are 
mostly presented in pictures sent us by Charles F. 
Leach of Florida. One picture. Fig. 037. shows a 
close-up view of the kudzu climbing on a line fence. 
The figure of the man gives the comparative size. 
He stands in a pasture of Bermuda grass, and we 
as shown in the pictures. The spaces between these 
fences may be seeded to rye. Hubam clover or other 
pasture crops. Oates are provided so the cows may 
pasture on a few rows at a time. Then they are 
turned into other rows, while the gates which open 
to the others are closed until the kudzu vines make 
a new growth. We see in the picture how this may 
be done—the cows are shown feeding 011 the kudzu. 
they were taken in Florida, where the climate and 
soil may be more propitious for the growth of kudzu. 
But will this plant make any such growth in the 
North, and can these “perpendicular pastures” lie 
utilized here? We do not know yet. but we have 
reason to think that kudzu will be reasonably suc¬ 
cessful in the North when we learn how to handle 
if. As an ornamental vine it has been grown suc- 
ean see how the vines of kudzu are creeping in from 
the field on the other side of the fence. The same 
thing happened with us in New Jersey this past 
Summer. The kudzu vines crawled across a field 
under a fence and started to run over the lawn. 
Another picture. Fig. 038, gives a good view of 
what Mr. Leach calls a perpendicular pasture. This 
has already been explained several times. Fences of 
wire 8 ft. or more high and 7 ft. apart are built 
through the field. The kudzu is planted along these 
fences. As these plants grow they cover the fences 
1 Vinter in An Old-time Farm Kitchen. Fig. 635. 
just as many of us have seen cattle break into gar¬ 
dens and feed on the vines of Lima beans. 
The other picture, Fig. 630. shows a still more' 
remarkable thing. Here the vines have run riot, 
covering bushes and climbing over trees in their 
luxuriant growth. Mr. Leach tells us that the tre¬ 
mendous growth shown in this picture was all made 
from one root of kudzu. Nothing that we could 
write can show the power of this plant as clearly as 
is done by this photograph. There can be no argu¬ 
ment with these pictures, except possibly to say that 
cessfully as far north as Albany. We know that in 
that latitude it has endured the Winter and made an 
enormous annual growth. On our own f: 
Northern New Jersey this past 
roots made a growth of 40 ft* 
frost. The vines ran r 
weeds and quack grass 
the place that grew 
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