The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 29National Geographic Society, 1916 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... thousand francs to any one who would devise a practicable method of preserv- ing such foodstuffs . Such a method was quickly evolved , and out of it has grown the world's canning industry - one of the important steps that civilization ...
... thousand francs to any one who would devise a practicable method of preserv- ing such foodstuffs . Such a method was quickly evolved , and out of it has grown the world's canning industry - one of the important steps that civilization ...
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... thousand of them are used at all for food , while only a few hundred of these are used to any important extent . Some of the plants which we now grow are ex- pensive food - producers , some produce food that is difficult to digest , and ...
... thousand of them are used at all for food , while only a few hundred of these are used to any important extent . Some of the plants which we now grow are ex- pensive food - producers , some produce food that is difficult to digest , and ...
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... of beef chilled by machinery instead of by ice was shipped , but today the funnels of refrigerator ships trace their lines of smoke upon every horizon " ( see text , page 21 ) . A FLOCK OF THOUSANDS OF SHEEP IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 6.
... of beef chilled by machinery instead of by ice was shipped , but today the funnels of refrigerator ships trace their lines of smoke upon every horizon " ( see text , page 21 ) . A FLOCK OF THOUSANDS OF SHEEP IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 6.
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A FLOCK OF THOUSANDS OF SHEEP IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC Photograph by F. Lamson - Scribner The Argentine Republic is second only to Australia in the amount of mutton produced . It has 70 sheep to the square mile , where we have 17. It ...
A FLOCK OF THOUSANDS OF SHEEP IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC Photograph by F. Lamson - Scribner The Argentine Republic is second only to Australia in the amount of mutton produced . It has 70 sheep to the square mile , where we have 17. It ...
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... thousand in the area of the picture . The Union Stock Yards 5,378,000 , and of hogs 6,618,000 . receive an average of about 7,000 cattle , 17,000 sheep , and 24,100 hogs every working day . The receipts of cattle for 1914 were 2,601,000 ...
... thousand in the area of the picture . The Union Stock Yards 5,378,000 , and of hogs 6,618,000 . receive an average of about 7,000 cattle , 17,000 sheep , and 24,100 hogs every working day . The receipts of cattle for 1914 were 2,601,000 ...
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