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

Bruce Fink Fig. 51. Seen from a short distance, a field of sugar cane looks like a field of corn. The tall canes are cuit bv hand with a large. straight knife. CHAPTER FIVE SUGAR BEETS AND SUGAR CANE A FEW centuries ago most people satisfied their need for sugar by occasionally eating honey, by drinking the sap of such trees as the maple and the palm, or by chewing a stick of sugar cane. Now civilized people use pure sugar three times a day in various foods and drinks, and they use it in considerable quantities. Hence it pays thousands of farmers to raise plants for the sugar they contain. The sugar-yielding plants. Sugar beets and sugar maples are raised in cold regions, sugar cane in warm regions, and sorghum cane in intermediate regions. By far the most important of these are sugar cane and sugar beets. In ordinary use no one can tell the dif- ference between the sugar made from beets and that made from cane. A sugar “cane,” or stalk, looks like a cornstalk without the ears. It grows differently, however; for many canes spring from one root, and when these are cut new shoots begin to sprout from the old root. A sorghum cane also looks somewhat like a cornstalk; it grows like the sugar cane. The sugar beet looks like a rutabaga turnip in color, size, and AHR

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