A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ^ri \ BETWEEN sert that the mostpotent and far-reach-ing factor in the alteredconditions of the industrialworld during the^e recentyears has been the suddeninvasion and utilization of thisgreat new farming region. Most parts of the world which are fairly prosperousdo not produce staple food supplies in appreciable surpkis qtiantities. Severalregions which are not highly prosperous soil surplu


A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ^ri \ BETWEEN sert that the mostpotent and far-reach-ing factor in the alteredconditions of the industrialworld during the^e recentyears has been the suddeninvasion and utilization of thisgreat new farming region. Most parts of the world which are fairly prosperousdo not produce staple food supplies in appreciable surpkis qtiantities. Severalregions which are not highly prosperous soil surplus food products out of theirpoverty rather than out of their abundance. That is to say, the people of BARHFVL-HDIST AND TUNNEL THROUQH THEWASHBURN MILL. THE NORTHWESTERN FARMER. 519 India and the people of Russia have often been obliged, in order to obtainmoney to pay their taxes and other necessary expenses, to sell and send awayto prosperous England the wheat which they have needed for hungry mouths athome. They have managed to subsist upon coarser and cheaper food. But inour Northwestern States the application of ingenious machinery to the cultiva-tion of fertile and virgin soils has within the past twenty-f


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