Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

The United States as a Farming Country 37 | UNITED STAT™ ARID AND SWAMP! © 71 ARID REGIONS - WA _w~I TERED SWAMPS Lo Fig. 22. Arid lands and swamp lands are not available for agriculture. Much of the arid region is mountain land that will never be productive. The swamps that need to be drained are small compared with the arid regions, and are located in a different part of the country. The draining of swamps is usually undertaken by the governments of the states concerned, not by the Federal zovernment. Lovers of wild life tell us that some swamp areas should be left as refuges for birds and wild animals, for many species will become extinct when the last of the swamps are drained. 6. The average value of the crops per acre of improved land for the whole country in 1919 was about $36.33. How do you account for the difference between this crop value and that mentioned in Question 5? Explain how the reclamation of arid land benefits you. Frame a brief statement to tell how these examples of reclaiming waste land by irrigation illustrate the importance of rainfall to agriculture. B. Alaska as a farming country. 1. Compare Figures 3 and 4 with Figures 20 and 21. What parts of Alaska might we expect to be productive? In what other parts of the United States are the summer temperatures like those of Alaska? The winter temperatures ? C. Why some countries carry on intensive farming. l. A farmer in Shantung, China, had a wife and ten children. He supported them all on two and a half acres of land, where he kept one cow, one don- key, and two pigs, and grew millet, wheat, sweet potatoes, and beans. In the United States there are about three and a half acres of cultivated land for each man, woman, and child. How many acres would an American farmer need, with his high standard of living, to support a family of the same size as the Chinese farmer's ?

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