Identifier: bookoftexa00bene (find matches)
Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Indian Blankets on the Campus of the A. & M. College of Texas A Photograph of Wild Deer Made in Southwest Texas Rain Lilies on University of Texas Campus, Austin
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The Green Juicy Leaves (Really the Stems) of the Cactus Bear Large,Projective, Needlelike Spines and Clusters of Short, Red, Easily De-tached Stickers Selective Breeding Has Given Rise to a Spineless and Stickerless Cul-tivated Cactus A Mexican Singeing the Spines and Stickers from the Growing Wild Cac-tus with a Gasolene Torch. One Man Can Provide Forage for a HundredCattle. When very Hungry Cattle Sometimes Eat the Cactus Before ItIs Singed THE CLIMATE 87 has not yet found it necessary to keep any very accurateaccount of births or deaths. On the other hand, it is aslight exaggeration to claim, as many localities do, thattheir healthfulness is so great that people have to moveaway to die. The death rate is so small that a consider-able number of patriotic Texans, ashamed of its smallness,endeavor to increase it by engaging in mortal combat withothers equally patriotic and pugnacious. Perhaps this isone of the reasons that the percentage of people over 65is only half what it is in non

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