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Twenty - five per cent of this is figured as cost of production , leaving $ 900 profit per acre . Even this seems remarkable to farmers and orchardists in the temperate zone , where even $ 50 per acre is a fair profit on any crop .
Twenty - five per cent of this is figured as cost of production , leaving $ 900 profit per acre . Even this seems remarkable to farmers and orchardists in the temperate zone , where even $ 50 per acre is a fair profit on any crop .
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New Mexico claims to have 13,000,000 acres of public lands left as well adapted to agriculture as any that have been homesteaded in the remarkale influx of new settlers during the past two years . Wyoming estimates its vacant area of ...
New Mexico claims to have 13,000,000 acres of public lands left as well adapted to agriculture as any that have been homesteaded in the remarkale influx of new settlers during the past two years . Wyoming estimates its vacant area of ...
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F IVE billion dollars to make the United States a mammoth Garden of Eden , every acre of which shall yield abundantly , every ... one billion dollars for the reclamation by irrigation of 40,000,000 acres of arid and semi - arid lands ...
F IVE billion dollars to make the United States a mammoth Garden of Eden , every acre of which shall yield abundantly , every ... one billion dollars for the reclamation by irrigation of 40,000,000 acres of arid and semi - arid lands ...
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