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... corn , rye , and FIGURE 3. Bottling milk for shipment to the city . other grains , which are ground into flour and meal for making bread , cakes , and pies . Dairy farmers keep cows for their milk . Some of the milk is made into butter ...
... corn , rye , and FIGURE 3. Bottling milk for shipment to the city . other grains , which are ground into flour and meal for making bread , cakes , and pies . Dairy farmers keep cows for their milk . Some of the milk is made into butter ...
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... corn , cotton , or potatoes . ( 3 ) Your teacher will tell you how butter , cheese , and condensed milk are made . ( 4 ) Watch the building of a house and notice the different steps of the work and the different kinds of labor employed ...
... corn , cotton , or potatoes . ( 3 ) Your teacher will tell you how butter , cheese , and condensed milk are made . ( 4 ) Watch the building of a house and notice the different steps of the work and the different kinds of labor employed ...
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... corn or wheat to make bread . They have no cotton or wool for clothing , and no wood for making houses or furniture , except the timber and wrecks of ships which is thrown up on their shores by the ocean . Their food and clothing are ob ...
... corn or wheat to make bread . They have no cotton or wool for clothing , and no wood for making houses or furniture , except the timber and wrecks of ships which is thrown up on their shores by the ocean . Their food and clothing are ob ...
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... corn , beans , and other vegetables in the rich soil around their huts . The women pound the corn into meal in a big mortar hollowed out of a block of wood ; from the meal they make corn - bread which they bake in a fire kindled outside ...
... corn , beans , and other vegetables in the rich soil around their huts . The women pound the corn into meal in a big mortar hollowed out of a block of wood ; from the meal they make corn - bread which they bake in a fire kindled outside ...
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... most abundant . Soil that is mostly sand , such as we find in lands near the ocean , we call sandy soil . If the soil contains coarse pebbles we call it gravel . When corn . Peach trees will grow in a sandy soil. 20 HOME GEOGRAPHY.
... most abundant . Soil that is mostly sand , such as we find in lands near the ocean , we call sandy soil . If the soil contains coarse pebbles we call it gravel . When corn . Peach trees will grow in a sandy soil. 20 HOME GEOGRAPHY.
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Page 71 - Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds.
Page 260 - This is an enormous figure cut out of the solid rock, having the head of a woman and the body of a lion.
Page 76 - The space between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone, and that between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle is the South Temperate Zone.
Page 90 - A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water is called a strait.
Page 101 - They crossed the Rocky Mountains and descended the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, thus gaining a foothold in the extreme Northwest.
Page 274 - Compare the cotton crop of the United States with that of the rest of the world.
Page 212 - Germany vast amounts of it are found a few feet below the surface of the ground in the northern part of the country.
Page 36 - An island is a body of land completely surrounded by water" and "A mountain is a high elevation of land composed mainly of rock." We struggled through, "Ponds and lakes are bodies of water that occupy depressions in the land." Whatever depressions in the land might be, it was beyond us to fathom ; but woe engulfed us if we could not tell that lakes occupied them. We sometimes had ten or more of these definitions in one day, and some of us were "kept in...
Page 61 - ... the right hand toward the east, and the left hand toward the west. The Making and Reading of Maps.