Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

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

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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

7. Modern Business Geography (plums) ; (d) pears; (e) olives; (f) pineapples. An especially good ref- erence book for this problem is Crissey’s The Story of Foods. D. How transportation influences the fruit industries. 1. Fifty years ago the banana was a rare product in the American market. What has made possible its present general use ? Some of the most delicious tropical fruits, such as the mangosteen, are not known outside the tropics because they decay so easily. What will probably be the effect of increasingly speedy methods of transportation upon the regions producing these fruits? Many bushels of apples sometimes rot beneath the New England trees because the individual farmers do not have means of marketing them readily. What does the experience of California suggest as to a way of saving this waste and turning it into a profit ? What parts of the world are supplying your community with fruits or vegetables? Divide the class into two groups, one to work on fruits and one on vege- tables. Watch your local stores for several days and make lists of the various kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables sold. See which group can get (a) the longer list; (b) the longer list of those grown in a place far from the local market. Explain how and why the second list will vary from season to season. How many of the fruits or vegetables on your lists are also sold in dried or canned form ? 2. 2. Fig. 62. "Recent experiments have shown that the mango, one of the finest. fruits known. can be orown sticecessfullv in Florida.

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