The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 29National Geographic Society, 1916 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... crops of the world . It is less than a century ago that the lima bean came to us from South America , and the potato was unknown to civilization be- fore the white man went to Peru and ... crop of 5,000,000,000 bushels . Were all of our.
... crops of the world . It is less than a century ago that the lima bean came to us from South America , and the potato was unknown to civilization be- fore the white man went to Peru and ... crop of 5,000,000,000 bushels . Were all of our.
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... crop of 5,000,000,000 bushels . Were all of our arable land under culti- vation and producing only according to our ... crops do not yield . sufficient bread , there are hundreds of millions of acres of potential banana land which will ...
... crop of 5,000,000,000 bushels . Were all of our arable land under culti- vation and producing only according to our ... crops do not yield . sufficient bread , there are hundreds of millions of acres of potential banana land which will ...
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... CROPS That the vegetable kingdom has more to offer the world's market basket than the animal world is revealed by a com- parison of the animal products and the vegetable products of the food factories of the United States - the greatest ...
... CROPS That the vegetable kingdom has more to offer the world's market basket than the animal world is revealed by a com- parison of the animal products and the vegetable products of the food factories of the United States - the greatest ...
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... crop than he re- ceives for his small one . Excluding rice , we find that the 1911 cereal crop amounted to 13,786,000,000 bushels . The average value per bushel , based on the average farm price for the United States on December 1 , was ...
... crop than he re- ceives for his small one . Excluding rice , we find that the 1911 cereal crop amounted to 13,786,000,000 bushels . The average value per bushel , based on the average farm price for the United States on December 1 , was ...
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... crop is only about ten bushels per acre . That her lands are as fertile and her cli- mate as well suited to the growing of wheat as those of England and Germany are facts well known to all those who have considered her relation to the ...
... crop is only about ten bushels per acre . That her lands are as fertile and her cli- mate as well suited to the growing of wheat as those of England and Germany are facts well known to all those who have considered her relation to the ...
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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