The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 29National Geographic Society, 1916 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 7
... feet high , and the undergrowth was so dense that no man could penetrate it save by cutting his way through with a machete . There I saw the contrast between the The banana plantations , stretching for past and the future of the ...
... feet high , and the undergrowth was so dense that no man could penetrate it save by cutting his way through with a machete . There I saw the contrast between the The banana plantations , stretching for past and the future of the ...
Page 31
... feet ; still other wheels are turned by animal power ( see page 39 ) . In the Philippines , Java , and parts of southern Asia thousands of water buf- faloes are used to drag the plows and harrows through the mud in preparing the seed ...
... feet ; still other wheels are turned by animal power ( see page 39 ) . In the Philippines , Java , and parts of southern Asia thousands of water buf- faloes are used to drag the plows and harrows through the mud in preparing the seed ...
Page 31
... feet ; still other wheels are turned by animal power ( see page 39 ) . In the Philippines , Java , and parts of southern Asia thousands of water buf- faloes are used to drag the plows and harrows through the mud in preparing the seed ...
... feet ; still other wheels are turned by animal power ( see page 39 ) . In the Philippines , Java , and parts of southern Asia thousands of water buf- faloes are used to drag the plows and harrows through the mud in preparing the seed ...
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... feet high . In its wild state it grows three or four times as high as in its cultivated state . The dwarfing of the plant in- creases the crop and facilitates picking . The leaves are of a fresh green color ; the flowers are white and ...
... feet high . In its wild state it grows three or four times as high as in its cultivated state . The dwarfing of the plant in- creases the crop and facilitates picking . The leaves are of a fresh green color ; the flowers are white and ...
Page 73
... feet high in its wild state , but dwarfed under cultivation . It prefers a subtrop- ical climate where the rainfall approxi- mates 50 inches a year . After the leaves are picked the tea reaches its commercial state by two routes - one ...
... feet high in its wild state , but dwarfed under cultivation . It prefers a subtrop- ical climate where the rainfall approxi- mates 50 inches a year . After the leaves are picked the tea reaches its commercial state by two routes - one ...
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