The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 29National Geographic Society, 1916 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... soil , and make foods in factories perhaps as well as nature makes them on the farm . CONTINENTAL CHARACTERISTICS In any study of how the world is fed , one discovers very soon that the various continents are characterized by widely ...
... soil , and make foods in factories perhaps as well as nature makes them on the farm . CONTINENTAL CHARACTERISTICS In any study of how the world is fed , one discovers very soon that the various continents are characterized by widely ...
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... 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 suited for wheat ...
... 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 suited for wheat ...
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... the 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.
... the 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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TRANSPLANTING RICE IN AN INUNDATED SOIL : JAPAN Rice yields best in lowlands subject to occasional inundations . In some ... soil is often not well suited for any other crop . Asia produces 99 out of every 100 pounds of the world's rice ...
TRANSPLANTING RICE IN AN INUNDATED SOIL : JAPAN Rice yields best in lowlands subject to occasional inundations . In some ... soil is often not well suited for any other crop . Asia produces 99 out of every 100 pounds of the world's rice ...
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... 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 suited for wheat ...
... 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 suited for wheat ...
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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