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Plan Moving of Big Grain Crops

WMtfy St* Found in Top of Huge Trw Knoxville, Tena.—1* U Both ins unnsml to flwl Ittlctt distil. lerlt-t hidden in

Railroad Administration Giving ! Careful Consideration to Necessary Measures.

EXPECT GREAT SHUT YIELD

I pisnt this country pssp«es one of the hardiest and tno« valuable forar* * plants known. Indeed, this remarkable vine seem* destined to become one of the iesdlnc sources of wealth la certain aectioos of the United State*. Especially Is this true of the aonthern states, where the slow development of a^rlcnltore baa been duo In large measure to the lack of good nutritious pastures and of roughage that lasts throughout the entire j r. While :dsu Is by no means a new plant. It was only a year ago that any extensive espcrlments were made with It; the number of forma on which It was grown was inslfh ill rant. In feet ft nppears not to have been studiously cultivated anywhere until Florida man made the arctdeiital discovery that tile live stock saemed to prefer It to a iy other kind of forage plant and the they waxed fat upon It. As this wvs at a time when the high cost of 'eed forced many farmers to reduce the daily allowance of their antmata. he hastened to plant a number of acres to kudzu, with the most satisfactory re-

sults.

Builds Up Poor Land. It was not only ns a feed for hla tiwrr animals that he disco re red virtue In the plant, however. He found that, by reason of Ita power of extracting nitrogen from the air through the medium of the bacteria no Ita roots end aduing this essential element to the soil. It quickly built up poor and worn-out land, making It fertile and productive, in this respect he believe* it even superior to clover, alfalfa and other leguminous plants. Last season he made the best corn rrtr grown In Florida, averaging .V) bushels to the acre, on land that the aroaor tw-foro had been planted to kudzu. and this without any fertiliser whatover. What made the *«perinient more Interesting was the fact that this land previously sever produced a good crop of any sort, being considered practically wort-'ilow. All this came about as the result of a few vines which had been planted on the lawn of hla borne for oma- j men's! purposes. Kudzu makes a beautiful growth, the leaves being of a dark green, and Is one of the fastest growers known, producing a dense ahade In n very short time. On the lawn of this Florida man It was grown to cover a summer house. Bo rapid was Ms growth. In fact, that after the second year he grubbed It out as something of a nuisance, been use the vines trailed all over the lawn, making It It. possible to keep the grow th cocCued to the 4ommer bouse. (

The three roots ao dug up were thrown on a trash pile in one corner of the yard, with the Idea that, since it wanted to run on the ground, it would grow and conceal the trash pile. It nat only did this the drat sew. but continued to reach out until I' covered all the adjoining fences, dually reaching the barn lot wbe-- ine family horse was kept. According to ita owner, the horse literally wore hla mane off reaching under the bar* of the fence for the vine, while the neighbors' cattle and bogs continually broke through the fence to get It. Becoming alarmed, lest the ptarf might be poisonous the owner of the horse sent some of It to the department of agriculture for an opinion. On learning from this source that kudzu bad t.o poisonous properties that were know .1 of. he began Investigating and experimenting, with the result that It was found by repeated analyses to contain an avenge of 17 per cent of protein. In one Instance tise percentage being 1SJC. The average percentage of protein in alfalfa la 14.3 per cent On a measured space 80 feet square be cut during one season at the nte of 11 tons cured hay at four cuttings. This, however, wka an exceptionally favorable season, there being no late froKt. and the first cutting was ready May i. The second cutting was made Jute 11. the third the last of July, and the fourth early In September. ' While It la not delated that kudzu will make four cuttings every season, nor yield 11 tons per acre at a cutting It If believed that a safe estimate la from two to three cuttings, with a yield of from four to six tons per acre, anywhere that the |daat nmy be grown under favorable circumstance*. and experiments have proved that It Is perfectly hardy all over the United B'ates. enduring the winters as

far north a* Nova Beotia. Needed In the South.

<Vhut Is needed in the Booth especially, is a forage that stock can live nad keep fat on the year around. There arc many valuable cultivated crops that make Immense Jidda, but :hdr period of mature life la abort, making frequent plantings necessary in order to have a complete succession. The velvet beau, for Instance. Ik an all*casnn crop, but It Is not ready to feed until November. The cowpea, any bean, and the various sorghums and millets are good forage crop*, but all must be planted In succession and cultivated for liest results. Furthermore. In the case of crop* that must be harvested before feeding, the farmer ha* •nly a few day* in which to get It In Its prime condition, something that Is impoosftde If rains are frequent. Again, all the leruroeo. with the ex ceptlon of kudzu. are open to objection through dropping their leaves and shutu-ring while curing and harvestArtd a heavy rain on them, or

any of the grasses hays or fodders during the pe.iod of curing me. ns serious injury if not complete ruin. Kudzu* Hardy Quantise Kudzu. however, posse wen none of theae disadvantages. One planting lafctg for many years and It may be cut or pastured at any time during the sensor., in north Florida, fran about the middle of April until frost comes. And where there la a growth left In the ground, stock win feed on it all winter. Stock, in fart, have been known to eat the dead leaves and vine* which have lain out and weathered until March, when It was hauled in for bedding In preference to the be*t hay that could be bought The vinca do not bloom or bear seed, and Ita roo's penetrate the soli deeply, for which reason they remain green and full of life during the entire glowing season. Accordingly, the bay can be cut any time when weather renditions are suitable for curing hay. as kudzu is not Injured by waiting for good weat-V er as other hay crops are. In fact, even If kudzu is thoroughly aouked during the curing period. It will afterwards show little effect of wetting. Moat people might think that because kudzu is a vine. It must be very difficult to cot ami handle !t as a hay crop. On the contrary, experience Las shown that It U no more trouble to ret or handle Fan a heavy crop of red clover. Mexican clover. crabgraMa, or any other hry that make* a matted growth, while It Is much easier to handle tlan either cow-pea or velvet Iwaa hay. Unlike the cowpea and velvev bean, kudxu l« anchored to the ground every few Inches, ar.1 so the vine* cannot drag abend of the hiowrr blade, as In the case of peas and beans. Kudzu should be propagsied by means of tin- rooted ptniit*. for when these plants are removed to new fields they carry with them the bacteria, on the tubercle* of their roots, which are necessary to Inoculate the new soil In order to secure the hear results When (he plant becomes well eatabllshed u needs no further Cultivation, being able to control native weeds and aes without assistance. The root* ii»e for nisnv years and do not require' replanting after the first season. Tlte pm|>er time for planting kudzu Is two <>r three wa- x* In advance of corn planting, or u little earlier If one can get the ground ready. A full crop of corn may be grown on the same land during the first year by simply dropping the grains I act ween the plants. Neither crop will Interfere with the <.<her and both need about the same attention. Tin- ground, however, should be left smooth and I at the last cultivation to permit easy r» ••ting of the vines or runners and suiito-qomt mowing for hay. After the first year the kudzu v1ll not need any cultivation at all, as the vinca will root at the Joints.

of Orata Will Exceed That u» Last Yarn- by Larpa Margin May Try Permit System

Washington.—The -railroad administration la giving careful consideration to the measures necessary for the aatUfartory transportation of the anticipated large crop* of grains, according to a statement authorised by Walker D. Bloat, director general of rallyoads. The department of agriculture has estimated that the yteW of winter Wheat will exceed 800.000.000 bushels. A fair estimate of the rield of spring wheat approximates 300,000,000 bushel*. The total yield of wheat this year will in all probability exceed the total of last year by from three to four hundred millions of bushels. No animate of other grains Is, of coarse, pcxjrfble at this time, but, barring unusual climatic conditions. It can perhaps be properly expected that the tonnage In grain that will be produced this year will exceed that of last year by a considerable margin. The stable price fixed last y<ar by the government on wheat naturally prorokud a desire on the port of the producer to realize his earnings as quickly as possible and since a stable i again been fixed by the gov eramcot for this year’s crop it Lx assumed a similar condition will obtain. Last year this economical condition, coupled with more or leas disarrangement In ocean tonnage and consequent disruption In shipping, resulted In such an acute situation at the Interior grain markets and at seaports, that It became necessary to Install the socalled “patmlt system." which was early made operative at the porta, and 1818, at the principal In-

Tbe permit system la a ulghly beneficial. system of controlling traffic at the source* to prevent serious congestion on the road and at destination. ThU system prevented In the fall of 1818 a nations transportation patalysia of former years due to widespieuu congestion of traffic which had been shipped but which could not be di% posed at destination. This paralyMs of traffic In former year* was most apparent in the East, but Ita InJoricua effects were felt throughout the feountry. While the permit system at the ports U still in operation. It was suabended a few months ago at the Interior markets, due to Improved ocean Shipping and the fart that Jie bulk of the grain had been moved. It la. how-

he npeneJ U»< will again be inaoguratrd wl.li me opening of the new wheat w** 0 ®; In view of that possibility the railroad

may be prepared to art wlthoot delay at the proper time. Qafft.»ucaa have already been held with rapreseot- * tires of the grain corporation. As graphically illustrating the necessity of regulating the transportation of this tonnage, and the results obtained from such regcUtiost. the following farts ere of value and tntereriIng: For the nine months of the crop year. July L 1818. to Msy 1, 1818. there passed through the grain handling facilities of the country—eleratoi* and mills—a total of 3,440.236,000 bushel* of all grains, although the highest point of grain storage of all kinds at any one time in that period was 480.000,000 bushels. That I*. In nine months the flow of grain wa* seven times the quantity which accumulated in storage at the higher* point daring tbit period. This Is a direct.lllnstnttlon of the necessity of keeping the grain handling facilities of the country liquid to avoid the distress to all Interests that would follow the blocking of this flow of grain. Relnauourate Permit Plan. The permit system as operated last yea' contemplate* the closest co-oper-ntlon between the railroad administration and the United State* food administration grain corporation. The local representatives of the grain corporation were In dally coiffact with

internal But to find one perched in the top of a towering o*k tret u quite-a novelty, be aays. Mr. Ivins located a Mice cupper still to sack a place whet conducting a raid to the femoni old Tenth district, or fierier county. Tenneteee. The omfl: wait dislodged and ffsatroyed.

prehen sir* data and taformatW u

their . tie*, anticipated movements out « market*, the needs of different lions of the country, not only it u wheat but coincidentally with wheat, etc, wro of invaluable aM to the ment of the minimum same character of arranged for from the grain enrporv lion, or the wheat director, to antis pat ion that !t win be necessary to nInaugurate the permit plan within £U next one or two month* The wheat director is as’ vitally 1* tercsted as the railroad atetoistratlr that the grain tonnage shall be ha died with the least poualble frictloc u between all Inti Is In entire harmony with the rallnaf administration a* to the riant, prx> poseu to that direction.

Most Deadly of All War Gases

Ten Tons a Day Being Made When the Armistice Wa* Signed

DISCOVERED BY PROF. LEWIS

T«i Airplane Loads of This SuperPoison Bufftoiaut to Have Destroyed All Ufa in Bertln— Known a*--Methyl." Washington.—At the educational exposition, Ulnstmtog the wartime and reconstruction actYvWei of the department of the Interior now being told there 1* being shown under guard a sample of the most terrible superpoison gas knosm, the discovery of Prof. W. Lae Lewi* while to the employ of the bureau of mines at ita Anurican university laboratories. Till*, ga.v. formerly called “Lewisite."

TURKS IN HUNGER DEMONSTRATION

later known as "ibrthyT," beeanw tw latter name meant nothing to curtoai persons, was being maeufarturod bj the war department at the rate of w tons a day u-heu the armtottec can*. The gas Is being variously describe! e* “the climax at • The eonatryl the lethal arts" u«! - —. jrrible instrument F manslaughter ever conceived." TIN departm, n* itself declare* that U It the most deadly of all war gases Meat Deadly of AIL It is said that ten airplane load* “methyl" would have been safflclent U destroy an Ufe to Berlin. If such n treme measure* beep ninewurr sed that • stogie dayh eutput wt oli have been sufficient to mnX out it* 4.000.000 human Uvea on the island U

Mrnhnttan.

This gn was not eely discovered bj Professor Lewis, but was also developed by him to a point where It w* ready for production at the America* university while Umar labor* to'.'-i were still under the control of the 1-t reau of mines, one of the orgar.lrit of the department o> the Interior When this work was first taken up tj the bureau In behalf of the miliTi.ri authorities Professor Lewis wa* rci:-’ from his dTitian duties as profe*** r o! chemistry at North ~ -

*" Vrai tt»«t«»tioupl* hungry Tartfah dtlsens are bolding a meeting asking the government to feed them.

Live on Grass Roots

Tate of Cann&als in Armenia Is Confirmed.

MUCH IN UTTLE Mr*. Marshall Stetson of Haiienp stuffed and baked 40 chicken* for the supper nerved at the Bed Men’s

ball.

Detailed aoll aurveya covering 38.180 square mite* of the Untied State* were mode tort year by d<parttn' -* I of ogr>culture arteDtists. To string bead* quickly a *.-««ik op.-rnt. >1 luarhlne ha* town Invented by a European that feed* them upon the ynlst uf a (trailed needle.

A veiciripcde for two lie* 'own d<algpwl. m ronstrnrted that a smaller hoy can ride safely behind a larger one. who uippilus the motive power A railroad In Braid •iUIIms Its old rail* mounted to pu’-r*. for telegnrpb poles to a region when- Insect* dostroy wooden one*. A dead whale that drifted ashore. L’ch on the rocks on Pemaquid point, facing John* hay, ha* town blown up by dynamite. The carrak* .* 60 feet long and was estimated to weigh mor,

than 'JO tuns.

Try kerosene oil for washing win- I down. Damiwu a cloth with it and j clean the glass, then polish with a dry I

cloth.

Mr*. Hreiy E. Know of Krorfctoo and her twin nDter, Mrs. Evelina t Ihiwl.y of Providence, aged 70. Juat had a birthday party. A «to*alcal for preserving art object* in good condition ha* te*n (to j vised by Dr. (Xilrkashlgc. profraaor i of the Kyoto university. It ha* proved j | very effurtlTC In protecting n*n pic- ( tura end other fir**- •»***• ~c .•* ;

rvrtioe and Misery Prevail Amcng Armenian Refugees In Cau-

Gonstantluoplc.—Starvation and misery prevail among Armenian rofugms to the Couruau* region, an-unling to a telegram ►,-nt to Herbert Hoover to Part* by Howard Heinz. Armrlcsu food couimlaaloncr for the near Kaat. who I* In thl* city. Mr. Hrlnx ha* returned from B trip of tosportlon to the Coumrua, on which hr wa* acroiupanlrd by Walter Oanrgc Smith of Phliadriphia former prvaidrut of the American I'.ur a» V v rlatioo and a rommlMloiM-r of the American ctaamltb-v for Anuraiun and Syrian .vtu-f, which ha* charg* <ff

8 ,frM " P* 0 <* the relief work I here. , “y tfporix that , lf the refugee*, driven fnu.tlc by Lun-vr and suffering, have rerorteq am,,,, ballsin an* true In bl« optoion Hr

odd. that food for fiOO.OUO in

"r* '“it" n. b ™

■Me aourre* for Stodh.-r year

•TL- lack of food to w * ou . - >

■oy* the telegram, “that the

oteato'^mw ,0 ^ ^ U ‘ r ***• ■•’*1 ohUln gras* rorHs. •vhl.l, tLe, “'V," kl “ *™u, .ml JrT?. “ S ^'T “"“““"I . i , rtr * t° «Mx with It. rid* r,,,,. I Ml, ute* the |*rinrlpal diet -,*• i gn til

worst of thl* s i e.1 . , 0C,,,,n - »»rt.U** they:

cinuot eat Miri, material, and It I. i ,b ' riilldren tlu.1 the *l,w h I | to the highest 'K-a'Urate!

I "It I* difficult mak

Kraturton. ni„ and at the roquert the burea-j wa* commissioned n* r tain In the ordnance department i awizned to the gas warfare terrier the bureau of minsa. While artlnx fhla capacity Profeaaor Lvwto dto ervd and developed this ga*. ami day* after the gu* work of the bur. "f mines wa* transferred t<> the Jo . ’tictlon of the war department an acre plant for Ita manufacture i I Mnrted near Ocveland. O.

“Mo-Jte Trap" PlanL

TUI. plant, which was dabbed by workmen the "manse trap,” brent . la ordi-r to prevent the leakage of f'vuiatl.in, it aas underatood that in** who entered would not towve tn the war was over, was to »1«rnit rithto U mir.iculounly short lime i plan* were made by the war d.-|« ment t „ have ZJOO ton. at thl* n> ‘Uato.ibwi r „ the American fr by March 1 3»|». Wbs« the anuUt cam.' the pbnit wus well ahead of | Pri-Iurtion * hedule. but tbe op|«.*f olty had not ertnr for the u*e of

ut the battle frueL

; but I think the worm atftMtlon t /woe t„ toy knowledge arc* in It wh.Te Ihero |. , larger proportion tJcknea, and u Wgb. i death rate tl i iu either Erl ran or AUxen.lrr.|>.*l. Begartling rv-portt of cannibal' »h4<b have come opt of t hi. dbC.i from Cop I bath been fnm-d r.Z»! my win u> brlleie theae report* to ’rue. j aaw with my own eye* mi U'.ed rwnalu* or nirpses whidi l ,,r ** exhomed from newly-uo I did not axe anyto*1> » bad actually wlfn#roed the roti« hume.il flesh, but there to so muci. < cum»f*ntlnl evidence that 1 per** :-

‘■•me to bsltove it true.

Typhua ha* been apldvmlr dor the winter, and Ita* toko" away fb' *au«la. I rut «itb the moderation of ' wtwiber it | a bun itoereaainc; 1 • turlera I* making It* appearui*,-*' » the or• look to threatening." King Albert to VtoM America Paris.—Ktaff Albert of Bcltnu ' * x|v-iled to viklt Waah'ngtoti. « tend Ibe initial meeting the IMS** at nutoM next October