The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 29National Geographic Society, 1916 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... cultivation today - but the crops themselves are being constantly improved and their natural per - acre yield increased . It is a far cry from the little old knotted and gnarled apples of a few cen- turies ago to the magnificent Stayman ...
... cultivation today - but the crops themselves are being constantly improved and their natural per - acre yield increased . It is a far cry from the little old knotted and gnarled apples of a few cen- turies ago to the magnificent Stayman ...
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... cultivation will be vastly increased , but new products are an inevitable prospect of the future . When one travels in tropical countries he finds that banana flour makes an excel- lent substitute for wheat flour ; and if the day ever ...
... cultivation will be vastly increased , but new products are an inevitable prospect of the future . When one travels in tropical countries he finds that banana flour makes an excel- lent substitute for wheat flour ; and if the day ever ...
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... cultivation on American soil ; but those who have studied the question most closely tell us that the wheat - grow- ing industry has heretofore simply fol- lowed the lines of least resistance , pick- ing out here and there the lands best ...
... cultivation on American soil ; but those who have studied the question most closely tell us that the wheat - grow- ing industry has heretofore simply fol- lowed the lines of least resistance , pick- ing out here and there the lands best ...
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... 1913. This would give them a per capita production of 215 pounds . Their total production of rye amounted in the same year to 654 , - 000,000 bushels , or 261 pounds per capita . acreage under cultivation in the United States , two and. 28.
... 1913. This would give them a per capita production of 215 pounds . Their total production of rye amounted in the same year to 654 , - 000,000 bushels , or 261 pounds per capita . acreage under cultivation in the United States , two and. 28.
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... cultivation in the United States , two and one - third times as large as that of the entire world today ( see pages 101 and 105 ) . It is certainly not unreasonable to be- lieve that the average farmer of the United States in future ...
... cultivation in the United States , two and one - third times as large as that of the entire world today ( see pages 101 and 105 ) . It is certainly not unreasonable to be- lieve that the average farmer of the United States in future ...
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