desmodium

This line of permanent crops (usually fodder grasses and legumes like guatemala, desmodium, and leucaena), and trees provides a solid erosion control structure which slows the speed of run-off rainwater and traps soil particles.

1. Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa. 1992

(Peruvian type), Townsville stillo, leucerne (alfalfa), and a green leafy desmodium.

Chapter 19 1982

The desmodium, the bidens, the agrimony and the cocklebur, which stick to your clothes even as late as February, are only using you as a Moses to lead their children to their promised land.

Some Winter Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

Over by the wire fence the tick-trefoil, desmodium, is in its glory.

Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

The desmodium and genesta celebrate their hospitality with a joke, as it were, letting their threshold fall beneath the feet of the caller, and startling him with an explosion and

My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873

Annual: maize, sorghum, cumbu Perennial: guinea grass B. N.hybrids LEGUMES: Annual: cowpea, cluster bean, desmodium Perennial: lucerne, desmanthes

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Pointed out Thari Kulissa of ECOTERRA Intl. "For example, the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), has shown how intercropping with napier grass and desmodium can protect against stemborers and weeds, increase soil fertility and provide fodder for cattle.

Dear Wellesley College, my alma mater, and Robert Paarlberg, a professor there 2008