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

Where Fruit is Produced 15 (1) The greatest apple regions are northern districts where large bodies of water afford protection from the cold winter and from early spring frosts. The frosts usually come with the northwest winds, and the orchards located on the south and east side of the lakes or bays are less likely to be nipped by the cold. This is the case in the western part of New York near Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, and also in the part of Michigan which borders the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. In Canada, the peninsula of Ontario and the famous Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia receive the same protection; hence these regions also raise great apple crops. Wisconsin and northern Illinois, on the contrary, get little protection against frost from Lake Michigan, since the prevailing wind is from the west. Their apple crop, therefore, is small. (2) The second kind of region where apples are grown with marked success includes cool places where there is much rough land with steep slopes and rather infertile soil. This land is purchased at small cost, since it is worth little for most crops. Although not fertile, it is good for apples, because on frosty nights during the budding period the cooler air drains down the steep slopes away from the trees and settles in the valleys. The hills and ridges may also shelter the orchards from cold north winds. . Such an apple region is the Appalachian district from the western part of North Carolina to southern Maine. Southeastern New York, in the Appalachian district, with the added advantage of nearness to the metropolitan market, has an enormous number of apple orchards. The low Ozark Mountains in Arkansas furnish another illustration of a rugged apple region. Such regions are so abundant in the United States that there seems to be no good reason why there should ever be a shortage of our apple supply. (8) The third kind of apple region is found in the irrigated parts of the western states. Here the special advantage is the brilliant sunshine from an almost unclouded sky. Such a condition gives the apples so much color that they are the most beautiful produced in America. Many persons think, however, that the apples of irrigated regions are more pleasing to look upon than to eat. Colorado, east- ern Washington and Oregon, and California are important sections where apples are grown by irrigation. Since apples do not grow well in warmer regions, they are of minor importance in the South. Apple growing outside the United States. Elsewhere in the tem- perate zones apples are raised on a large scale in localities similar to

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