The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 29National Geographic Society, 1916 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... yields half of the world's supply of sugar ( see page 86 ) . WAR AND CANNED GOODS The Little Corporal saw himself seri- ously embarrassed in the matter of food supplies for his army . He wanted some- thing for his men besides things ...
... yields half of the world's supply of sugar ( see page 86 ) . WAR AND CANNED GOODS The Little Corporal saw himself seri- ously embarrassed in the matter of food supplies for his army . He wanted some- thing for his men besides things ...
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... yield per acre . DEVELOPING NEW FOODS We are constantly developing new foods . It is only little more than half a century since the tomato was a curiosity of the South , known as the " love apple , ' and used to scare the slaves , who ...
... yield per acre . DEVELOPING NEW FOODS We are constantly developing new foods . It is only little more than half a century since the tomato was a curiosity of the South , known as the " love apple , ' and used to scare the slaves , who ...
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... yield of only ten bushels to the acre . When the day comes , as come it cer- tainly will , that Russia produces as much per acre as Germany and England , and when the untold millions of acres of un- developed land are opened up and ...
... yield of only ten bushels to the acre . When the day comes , as come it cer- tainly will , that Russia produces as much per acre as Germany and England , and when the untold millions of acres of un- developed land are opened up and ...
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... 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 $ 33,000,000 , while that of Russia amounts to ...
... 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 $ 33,000,000 , while that of Russia amounts to ...
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... yield of the six great cereal crops - oats , wheat , corn , rye , barley , and rice - ranges between sixteen billion and nineteen billion bushels , and statistics show that the farmer gets less ordinarily for his big crop than he re ...
... yield of the six great cereal crops - oats , wheat , corn , rye , barley , and rice - ranges between sixteen billion and nineteen billion bushels , and statistics show that the farmer gets less ordinarily for his big crop than he re ...
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