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and methods. the hidatsas and mandans, shut in their stockaded villages on the missouri by the hostile sioux, were not able to abandon their fields if they would. living quite out of the main lines of railroad traffic, they remained isolated and with culture almost unchanged until about , when their
harvesting, we reckoned two kinds of flowers, or heads. a stalk springing from seed of one of our cultivated varieties had one, sometimes two, or even three larger heads, heavy and full, bending the top of the stalk with their weight of seed. some of these big heads had each a seed area as much as eleven...
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