The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 29National Geographic Society, 1916 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... civilization has taken in the direction of insuring mankind against famine ( see also page 66 ) . It is not improbable that the present war will bring to mankind new methods in the feeding of the race that will prove as important as ...
... civilization has taken in the direction of insuring mankind against famine ( see also page 66 ) . It is not improbable that the present war will bring to mankind new methods in the feeding of the race that will prove as important as ...
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... civilization be- fore the white man went to Peru and Colombia ( see page 42 ) . Today representatives of all of the leading nations are scouring the remote places of the earth for crops which prom- ise to increase the world's total ...
... civilization be- fore the white man went to Peru and Colombia ( see page 42 ) . Today representatives of all of the leading nations are scouring the remote places of the earth for crops which prom- ise to increase the world's total ...
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... civilization , and yet today millions of people regard it as an almost indis- pensable part of the kitchen vegetable supply . New Jersey is our leading tomato and asparagus producing State ; New York leads in cabbage , onions , and ...
... civilization , and yet today millions of people regard it as an almost indis- pensable part of the kitchen vegetable supply . New Jersey is our leading tomato and asparagus producing State ; New York leads in cabbage , onions , and ...
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... civilization would find it very difficult to get along without wheat and its products . Although the wheat plant is not of western origin , it has be- come mainly a western product , march- ing hand in hand with western civiliza- tion ...
... civilization would find it very difficult to get along without wheat and its products . Although the wheat plant is not of western origin , it has be- come mainly a western product , march- ing hand in hand with western civiliza- tion ...
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... civilization from the land of the Incas , in Peru , the potato has girdled the globe , winning the esteem of every land and every people . No other plant in the entire range of the vegetable kingdom has ever gone so far or met with such ...
... civilization from the land of the Incas , in Peru , the potato has girdled the globe , winning the esteem of every land and every people . No other plant in the entire range of the vegetable kingdom has ever gone so far or met with such ...
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acres ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL American ancient animal army Asia Assyrian Autochrome Babylon Babylonia Bell blueberry bushels butter Canada civilization coast color corn crop cultivated Curtis & Miller Cuzco DAVID FAIRCHILD Department of Agriculture earth England Europe farm farmer feet fish fishery flowers forest garden glaciers Hiram Bingham human hundred important Inca Indians industry John Claude White King Lake land live Machu Picchu Mary Vaux Walcott meat ment miles millions mountains NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE National Geographic Society National Park O. F. Cook Ollantaytambo oyster Peru Peruvian Photograph by Curtis Photograph by Hiram Photograph by O. F. Photograph from U. S. plant potato pounds production race region river ruins sheep slopes soil South species stone tablet telephone temple terraces thousand tilefish tion trees U. S. Department Underwood & Underwood United Urubamba valleys walls Washington wheat wild yield