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A twenty-acre alfalfa demonstration on J.B. Andrews' farm, Roanoke County, Va. The yield was from four and one half to five tons per acre

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General Education Board (New York, N.Y.)

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General Education Board : an account of its activities, 1902-1914.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Farmers
  2. African Americans
  3. Alfalfa
  4. Farming
  5. Roanoke (Va.)

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