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OKLAHOMA - LoveToKnow Article on OKLAHOMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | At Oklahoma City, in the centre of the state, the mean annual temperature is 59; the mean for the summer (June, July and August) is 78, with, an extreme recorded of 104; the mean for the winter (December, January and February) is 38, with an extreme recorded of _IZ. |
 | | No other branch of agriculture in Oklahoma has advanced so rapidly as the production of cotton; the culture of this fibre was introduced in 1890, and the acreage increased from 682,743 acres in 1899 to 2,037,000 acres in 1909, and the yield increased from 227,741 bales to 617,000 bales (in 1907 it was 862,383 bales). |
 | | Oklahoma is already producing large crops of apples, peaches, grapes, water-melons and musk-melons, fyid many large apple arid peach orchards and vineyards have been planted. |
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