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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 349

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of the country where the annual rainfallis small and every summer brings a drought. In these cases, water storedin large natural or artificial reservoirs, or that furnished by snow meltingon the mountains, is utilized to carry the crops through the dry season andto enable the farmer to grow large… … DOUBLE CORN PLANTER ing. In the first half of the century, cattle and hogs were usually exposedto the severe weather of the winter with no other shelter than that affordedby a straw-stack, and this often was found leveled to the ground by the firstof March, leaving them entirely without shelter at…

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