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Title: Dry-land olive culture in northern Africa
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Kearney, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1874-1956
Subjects: Olive Agriculture Dry farming
Publisher: Washington, Gov't print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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A Fruit-Bearing Twig of the Chemlaly Olive. (Natural size.) Bui. 125, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate IV.
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Fig. 2.—The Interior of a Sfax Olive Orchard, Showing Wide Planting, CleanCultivation, and Careful Pruning. INDEX. Page. Africa, ancient, importance of dry-land arboriculture S-12 Agriculture, dry-land, importance of arboriculture 38 Algeria, ancient, flourishing condition, causes, etc 10-12 population 9 condition from third to seventh century 0-12 Almond, cultivation in ancient Tunis 11 orchards, establishment by French capitalists , 13 Amins, Sfax, duties in settling contracts 35 Amphitheater of Thysdrus 10 Arabs, destruction of olive orchards in ancient Tunis 12 Arboriculture, importance in ancient Africa 8-12 Arizona, Tucson, precipitation compared with Sfax 15 temperature changes compared with Sfax 15 Barley growing in olive orchards 27 Basin, olive tree, purposes 26-27 Basins, olive orchards, use in conservation of moisture 39 Beans, horse, growing in olive orchards 27 Bermuda grass. See Grass, Bermuda. Bertainchand, opinion on cause of excess of stearin in Sfax olives 20 Calc

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