Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture During the Second Session of the Sixty-first Congress, Volume 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - Commodity exchanges |
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... grow up on a denuded area the maximum floods from that area might under certain conceivable circumstances be as great as they were before , we maintain that the general effect , the average effect , is to regulate those floods . To ...
... grow up on a denuded area the maximum floods from that area might under certain conceivable circumstances be as great as they were before , we maintain that the general effect , the average effect , is to regulate those floods . To ...
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... grow up , and are better than the open slope , unprotected , but they are not anything like as good as forests . Moreover , in the open , after the forest has been cut off , fire is more likely to occur . In fact , that is where fire ...
... grow up , and are better than the open slope , unprotected , but they are not anything like as good as forests . Moreover , in the open , after the forest has been cut off , fire is more likely to occur . In fact , that is where fire ...
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... growing up in wil- lows and bushes , because now every little bit of rain that comes floods the whole land , drowns out any crops that may be planted , and spreads sand over the land so that not even grass will grow on it . You can not ...
... growing up in wil- lows and bushes , because now every little bit of rain that comes floods the whole land , drowns out any crops that may be planted , and spreads sand over the land so that not even grass will grow on it . You can not ...
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... growing- sometimes growing rapidly . Islands that a few years ago were just above low water are to - day , in some cases , cultivated in corn , they have built up so rapidly . The growth of an island of that kind is bound to displace ...
... growing- sometimes growing rapidly . Islands that a few years ago were just above low water are to - day , in some cases , cultivated in corn , they have built up so rapidly . The growth of an island of that kind is bound to displace ...
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... grow . Within a few years they chopped down the trees over practically the entire basin , on the steep slopes and all , and put it into tobacco ; and tobacco barns dotted every little hillside there . The stream that drained it had ...
... grow . Within a few years they chopped down the trees over practically the entire basin , on the steep slopes and all , and put it into tobacco ; and tobacco barns dotted every little hillside there . The stream that drained it had ...
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