The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 29National Geographic Society, 1916 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... known as the " love apple , ' and used to scare the slaves , who thought it poisonous . Corn came to us from the Indians , and has become one of the lead- ing cereal crops of the world . It is less than a century ago that the lima bean ...
... known as the " love apple , ' and used to scare the slaves , who thought it poisonous . Corn came to us from the Indians , and has become one of the lead- ing cereal crops of the world . It is less than a century ago that the lima bean ...
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... known to all those who have considered her relation to the world's future food problems . Even to- day , in spite of her small per - acre pro- duction of every principal crop , Russia is the greatest exporter of grain in the world . We ...
... known to all those who have considered her relation to the world's future food problems . Even to- day , in spite of her small per - acre pro- duction of every principal crop , Russia is the greatest exporter of grain in the world . We ...
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... known as beriberi when an ex- clusive rice diet is eaten , just as a too exclusive diet of corn produces pellagra . These two discoveries open up an en- tirely new field in the investigation of the causation of little understood ...
... known as beriberi when an ex- clusive rice diet is eaten , just as a too exclusive diet of corn produces pellagra . These two discoveries open up an en- tirely new field in the investigation of the causation of little understood ...
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... rice husks produces the disease known as beri beri when an exclusive polished rice diet is eaten , just as a too exclusive diet of corn produces pellagra TRANSPLANTING RICE IN AN INUNDATED SOIL : JAPAN Rice yields. 39.
... rice husks produces the disease known as beri beri when an exclusive polished rice diet is eaten , just as a too exclusive diet of corn produces pellagra TRANSPLANTING RICE IN AN INUNDATED SOIL : JAPAN Rice yields. 39.
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... known wherever good living is enjoyed . Danish dairymen have been imported to all parts of the temperate world to teach the secrets of high - class dairying ( see page 45 ) . The volume of butter which in normal times reaches the ...
... known wherever good living is enjoyed . Danish dairymen have been imported to all parts of the temperate world to teach the secrets of high - class dairying ( see page 45 ) . The volume of butter which in normal times reaches the ...
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