The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 29National Geographic Society, 1916 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... WONDERFULLY IMPROVED Not only is mankind gradually increas- ing the possible acreage for the growing of foodstuffs - and statistics indicate that only the most fertile third of the world's potential food - producing acreage is under ...
... WONDERFULLY IMPROVED Not only is mankind gradually increas- ing the possible acreage for the growing of foodstuffs - and statistics indicate that only the most fertile third of the world's potential food - producing acreage is under ...
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... wonderful discoveries of Ross and Reed and their coadjutors , of the meth- ods of preventing malaria and yellow fever , followed by the mastery of the secrets of the bubonic plague and beri- beri , and the application of these lessons ...
... wonderful discoveries of Ross and Reed and their coadjutors , of the meth- ods of preventing malaria and yellow fever , followed by the mastery of the secrets of the bubonic plague and beri- beri , and the application of these lessons ...
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... wonderful apple orchards . Our fisheries yield a return of $ 70,000 , - 000 a year , which almost exactly dupli- cates the returns the United Kingdom receives from her fishing industry . France's annual catch reaches a value of ...
... wonderful apple orchards . Our fisheries yield a return of $ 70,000 , - 000 a year , which almost exactly dupli- cates the returns the United Kingdom receives from her fishing industry . France's annual catch reaches a value of ...
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... wonderful country , possessing more latent agricultural re- sources , perhaps , than any like area in the world , has 288,000,000 acres of ex- cellent wheat land . Even at our present standard of production , which is less than half of ...
... wonderful country , possessing more latent agricultural re- sources , perhaps , than any like area in the world , has 288,000,000 acres of ex- cellent wheat land . Even at our present standard of production , which is less than half of ...
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THRESHING TIME IN THE WHEAT BELT Photograph from U. S. Department of Agriculture " That wonderful country ( Russia ) , possessing more latent agricultural resources , perhaps , than any like area in the world , has 288,000,000 acres of ...
THRESHING TIME IN THE WHEAT BELT Photograph from U. S. Department of Agriculture " That wonderful country ( Russia ) , possessing more latent agricultural resources , perhaps , than any like area in the world , has 288,000,000 acres of ...
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