A History of American Economic LifeCrofts, 1946 - 810 páginas |
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... wheat . The first of these could be grown almost ev- erywhere in the Middle West ; its yields were large , and its cultivation was easy . Although corn was taken to market , it more commonly furnished the basis for less bulky products ...
... wheat . The first of these could be grown almost ev- erywhere in the Middle West ; its yields were large , and its cultivation was easy . Although corn was taken to market , it more commonly furnished the basis for less bulky products ...
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... wheat crop was unprofitable , the farmers continued to raise it through sheer momentum . The Scandinavian immigrants to that state , originally acquainted with dairy farming , swung over to wheat growing , cultivated that cereal year in ...
... wheat crop was unprofitable , the farmers continued to raise it through sheer momentum . The Scandinavian immigrants to that state , originally acquainted with dairy farming , swung over to wheat growing , cultivated that cereal year in ...
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... wheat - producing areas of Virginia , and ves- sels drawing fifteen feet of water could sail within three miles of Rich- mond to fetch the flour cargoes for foreign and domestic markets . In the fifties the Richmond mills were fewer ...
... wheat - producing areas of Virginia , and ves- sels drawing fifteen feet of water could sail within three miles of Rich- mond to fetch the flour cargoes for foreign and domestic markets . In the fifties the Richmond mills were fewer ...
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THE IMPERIAL FRONTIER | 3 |
PRODUCTION IN THE BRITISH COLONIES | 40 |
THE DOMAIN OF COLONIAL COMMERCE | 92 |
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