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Kudzu not only stops erosion but so enriches the soil that when plowed under, it increases corn yields by two to sevenfold. As rich as alfalfa in protein and carotene, kudzu leaves can be used for grazing or cut as hay. Dehydrated, they also make a fine breakfast food, according to enthusiasts; some kudzu growers have gone so far as to concoct a recipe for Kudzup...
...Rochester's medical school. In the early '30s he noticed that baby chicks on a restricted diet had tiny hemorrhages under their skins. Their blood, he found, contained very little prothrombin, a blood element necessary for clotting. He cured them by feeding them pigs' liver, alfalfa, cabbage, spinach, etc. In 1935 he announced that he had isolated the curative substance from the foods, called it vitamin K after his scientific word for it-Koagulationsvitamine...
...engines of Santa Fe; the Frisco ; the Oklahoma City, Ada & Atoka R.R. that took Ada to the State capital 85 miles away. Inside the News office Paul boiled down facts & figures about the teeming life of Oklahoma's oil wells, zinc and lead mines, cotton and alfalfa fields, stockyards and cement mills into daily news for Ada's readers...
When a small Los Angeles firm, Vitamin Technologists, Inc., began to irradiate in defiance of Wisconsin's patents, the Foundation sued. The Circuit Court pointed out that the patents were so sweeping that a farmer who let his alfalfa lie under the sun's ultraviolet rays would be an "infringer." The Court ruled that Dr. Steenbock's finding, though it put the world greatly in his debt, was a "discovery," not a patentable invention. The Foundation will appeal to the Supreme Court...
...North Carolina: Irish potatoes off 20%, cabbage 50%, green peas 35%. > Arizona: Long-staple cotton off 30%, alfalfa...