A History of American Economic LifeCrofts, 1946 - 810 páginas |
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... crops are necessary not only to restore fertility , but to rid the soil of parasites , weeds , and even of insect pests , whose life cycle is often closely interlocked with that of a single crop . Deep and frequent plowing of the earth ...
... crops are necessary not only to restore fertility , but to rid the soil of parasites , weeds , and even of insect pests , whose life cycle is often closely interlocked with that of a single crop . Deep and frequent plowing of the earth ...
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... crop of grain appears to be considered by them as an intruder . " But the summer fallow invited losses through erosion and placed in idleness fields which might better have been devoted to a profitable crop . The general failure of the ...
... crop of grain appears to be considered by them as an intruder . " But the summer fallow invited losses through erosion and placed in idleness fields which might better have been devoted to a profitable crop . The general failure of the ...
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... crop . The expansion of the sugar area affords an exception to the westward movement formula . Aside from a few plantations in Georgia and Florida and an insignificant offshoot to the Brazos River in Texas , the industry always ...
... crop . The expansion of the sugar area affords an exception to the westward movement formula . Aside from a few plantations in Georgia and Florida and an insignificant offshoot to the Brazos River in Texas , the industry always ...
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THE IMPERIAL FRONTIER | 3 |
PRODUCTION IN THE BRITISH COLONIES | 40 |
THE DOMAIN OF COLONIAL COMMERCE | 92 |
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