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Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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S) v of these belts.Cotton also is oneof the leading prod-ucts.The most productivelip I » cotton regions in the worldv -jfep are the warm plains of the^■A^. ■ United States, India and wW% Egypt- on the stalk, the fields are again flooded, and the grain ripenswhile standing in water. Nearly all kinds of grain thrive in parts of the warmbelts. Among the other valuable plants are tea, sugarcane, sweet potato and tobacco. Most of the tea comesfrom southeast Asia. There is also found the teakr_=^^ tree which supplies valuable lumber, and^^v pigs the mulberry upon whose ^^l-, leaves silkworms feed.Many species of cac-tuses grow in Mexicoand the arid landsin the south-west part ofthe UnitedStates. Most of the mcactus plants ^jhave leaflessstems, with largethorns. The century plantyields a valuable fiberfrom which cordage ismade.
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