g House

CONTROL OF KUDZU VINE.

(From Miss M. C. P.,
Arcturus, Va.)

To Mrs. J. E. K. Washington: I am told by specialists of the Agriculture Department, Bureau of Plant Industry, at Beltsville re-search center, that the growth is controlled by cutting off the shoots at the ground. In time this treat-ment will diminish the strength and the roots will die. I find this growth the answer to my prayer as erosion control on my water-front property, near Mount Ver-dnon, where a steep slope 30 feet high formerly crumbled off at least an inch a year. No other vegetation can seem to hold or penetrate the hard-pan formation during the growing season, yet the freezing-thawing of winter loosens the surface so that it is washed off by the spring rains (north-easters). This Kudzu vine, grow-ing six inches during a single night, soon covers, climbing to higher elevations, and the tough lacework of branches soon be-soon cover my house and land-scape.

M d R/

sent Swabey some

enc/ other note/

For

with/ note only

which PaloPs was c

- aquaduct an extention of cisterni, all in the family.)

anyho / arachidi ( little round nubian on ward now think he is a relation of G.W.Carver)

acero, soja and kudzu.

**

the egregious Walt might note the DIFFERENT provincial stemme
on the 3 fr/ frog stamps /
and the fancy frog from " down under"

i.e. Australia

Kadzu in
a note on 4 pages

You or B./

Kadzu in
a note on 4 Pages

You or B/
still got copy Ron's

M d R/
sent Swabey some ads/ in Ga. Farm bully/tin re kadzu
enc/ other note/
For B's CONvaration , he might keep ON
with/ note only Alberi e CISTERNI
which PaloPs was cert/ hammering on , i.e. the cisterni
( aquaduct an extention of cisterni , all in the family. )

acero , soja and kudzu.

**

i.e. Australia

This is for Patricia's roof.

E. comes back to question of maple. If you have only a few seeds, he is wondering if you ever got the packets, or only a few in envelopes.
It might be as easy for Boris to interest the Institute (International) of Agriculture, as to get a licence to import a few sapplings. Or to get some sort of concession to try maples on larger scale, either up hill at Merano, or up in or toward the malga at Gais.

E. more interested in something that will grow, than in gadgetts.

Has the Signora Agresti any new ideas about arachidi or soja.
Answer to E.

Maple sugar even here is a fantastic price. The syrop excellent.
No doubt great pressure to reduce everyone to beet sugar,
Sugar cane certainly wont grow in the Tyrol. There is the
whole sugar trust against anyone getting sugar at a reasonable
price, let alone a high quality, and so on.

It may need all the high minded qualities of the Institute
to get a few trees into Italy, but still ....