 | Botany, Economic - 1829 - 446 pages
...would produce more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. M. Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds...space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is consequently to that of wheat as 133 : 1, and to that of potatoes... | |
 | Botany, Economic - 1830 - 438 pages
...would produce more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. M. Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds...space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is consequently to that of wheat as 133 : 1, and to that of potatoes... | |
 | Botany, Economic - 1830 - 440 pages
...more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. M. Humboldt calculates that as thirty- three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds of potatoes...space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is consequently to that of wheat as 133 : 1, and to that of potatoes... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Cyclopaedias - 1831 - 484 pages
...four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. M. Humboldt calculates that as 33 pounds of wheat, and 99 pounds of potatoes require the same space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is consequently to that of wheat as 133 : 1, and to that of potatoes... | |
 | Edwin Lankester - Food - 1832 - 416 pages
...and 411. cipally depend upon the plant for subsistence propagate it by suckers. But here the labour of cultivation almost ends ; and M. Humboldt has calculated...the Indian who lives upon his patch of bananas. The sams reasoning applies to the bread-fruit ; for when the produce of two or three of those trees will... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...would produce more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. M. Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds...space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is consequently to that of wheat as 133 : 1. and to that of potatoes... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...would produce more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. M. Hnmboldt calculate-, that as thirty-three pounds of wheat, and ninetynine pounds...potatoes, require the same space as that in which 40001bs. of Bananas are grown, the produce of Bananas is consequently to that of wheat as 133, and... | |
 | Mary Roberts - Natural history - 1839 - 312 pages
...produce more than one thousand pounds of nutritive substance. M. Humboldt further calculates that as thirtythree pounds of wheat, and ninety-nine pounds...space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is to that of wheat as 133 to 1, and to that of potatoes as 44 to... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...would produce more than four thousand pounds of nutritive substance. Mr Humboldt calculates that as thirtythree pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds...space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas are grown, the produce of bananas is consequently to that of wheat as 133 : 1, and that of potatoes... | |
 | Howard Malcolm - Burma - 1839 - 330 pages
...it hangs within reach. Like other palms, it has no branches. The Plantain-Tree. Humboldt calculates that thirty-three pounds of wheat, and ninety-nine pounds of potatoes, require the same surface of ground, that will produce four thousand pounds of ripe plantains, which is to potatoes as... | |
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Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds of potatoes require the same space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas... 
