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...Kudzu Kid & Lupine Queen...
Known as the "Blue Lupine Queen," Miss Myrick can challenge the "Kudzu Kid" any time. Blue Lupine, incidentally, is a nitrogen-bearing plant used extensively for winter cover crops in the South ... It stops erosion, and adds millions to the income of Georgia farmers...
Almost daily Cope finds room in his column for his favorite gospel-the coming of a Southland rich with new topsoil, year-round pastureland and milk-fed beef. The foundation of the Cope gospel is the fast-growing vine, kudzu;*he organized Georgia's Kudzu Club (20,000 members), and has plugged the vine so long that friends call him "the Kudzu Kid." It was betting on the horses that introduced Cope (and Georgia) to another important crop. On his way to drop a little money at the 1945 Kentucky Derby, Cope spotted a grass called Kentucky 31 fescue...
...Oriental kudzu (rhymes with good zoo) stops erosion, enriches the soil, is good for grazing...
...doctrine of soil conservation has taken deep root in the South. Farmers plant less land to cotton, more to grass and legumes. They terrace their steeper fields skillfully, plow on the contour instead of up & down hill. On thousands of once sterile slopes, the miraculous vine, kudzu, clambers like Jack's beanstalk. It chokes devouring gullies with entangled soil. It buries fences, leaps into trees. Its big leaves, which stay green until Christmas, are as nourishing to cattle as excellent alfalfa. When plowed under, kudzu enriches the soil...