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... crops , cultivate them , and harvest them , you learned that spring is the seed time of the year , early summer , the growing time , and autumn , the harvest time . When you learned that the long days of summer bring hot weather , and ...
... crops , cultivate them , and harvest them , you learned that spring is the seed time of the year , early summer , the growing time , and autumn , the harvest time . When you learned that the long days of summer bring hot weather , and ...
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... crops , cultivate them , and harvest them , you learned that spring is the seed time of the year , early summer , the growing time , and autumn , the harvest time . When you learned that the long days of summer bring hot weather , and ...
... crops , cultivate them , and harvest them , you learned that spring is the seed time of the year , early summer , the growing time , and autumn , the harvest time . When you learned that the long days of summer bring hot weather , and ...
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... crop . When the grass is gone or when the crop is harvested , the tent is taken down , rolled up , and placed with the poles , mats , and cushions , upon the backs of the camels , which kneel on the ground. 14 HOME GEOGRAPHY.
... crop . When the grass is gone or when the crop is harvested , the tent is taken down , rolled up , and placed with the poles , mats , and cushions , upon the backs of the camels , which kneel on the ground. 14 HOME GEOGRAPHY.
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... crop any scanty herbage by the wayside without stopping . The Arabs often hire out their camels to traders to carry goods across the desert . Long trains of camels called caravans are always traveling from oasis to oasis and from town ...
... crop any scanty herbage by the wayside without stopping . The Arabs often hire out their camels to traders to carry goods across the desert . Long trains of camels called caravans are always traveling from oasis to oasis and from town ...
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... crops . How the Soil May be Kept Fertile . Every crop that the farmer raises , takes some plant food out of the soil ; and if he does not add something to it to keep up the supply of plant food , the soil will soon be- come sterile . He ...
... crops . How the Soil May be Kept Fertile . Every crop that the farmer raises , takes some plant food out of the soil ; and if he does not add something to it to keep up the supply of plant food , the soil will soon be- come sterile . He ...
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Africa Alaska animals Arctic Arctic Circle Arctic Ocean Argentina Asia Atlantic Ocean Australia Austria-Hungary Brazil British building built called Canada Canal capital carried cattle Central chief city climate clothing coal cold colonies continent corn cotton crops earth east eastern Empire Eurasia Europe exports factories farming FIGURE fish forests fruits Geography German Empire globe grain Gulf hills Indians industries iron islands Isthmus of Panama Lake land largest leading live Longitude lumber manufacturing Mexico minerals mines Mississippi moun mountains Name nearly North northern ocean Pacific Pacific Ocean Panama plants plateau Pole population race railroads rain regions River rock Russia salt sheep ships slopes soil South America southern Spain Square Miles Strait streams SUPPLEMENTARY READING surface tains trade trees TROPIC OF CANCER Tropic of Capricorn tropical United valleys western wheat York Zone
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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.