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| Title | Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture During the Second Session of the Sixty-first Congress, Volume 2 Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture During the Second Session of the Sixty-first Congress in Three Volumes. [December 13, 1909], United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 14 Mar 2007 |
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