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"Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man."
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"Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people."
"Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us."
"A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall."
"Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants."
"Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production."
"Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities."
"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."
"Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies."
"A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect."
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"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."
"Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential."
"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."
"The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind."
"Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate."
"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."
"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."
"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals."
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