Borrowing and business in Australia

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Identifikator:: 183051623X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222122

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Wood, Gordon L. http://d-nb.info/gnd/1239193688

Title:: Borrowing and business in Australia

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Oxford university press, H. Milford

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: xv, 267 Seiten; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part III. The boom of 1890 and its economic consequences

Collection:: Economics Books

Where Fruit is Produced 7 water that they supply most of our needs for citrus fruits (Fig. 57). These are the southeastern and southwestern corners of the country. The Florida orange groves. The peninsula of Florida is nearly always free from frost, not only because it lies far south, but because most of the winds come from the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. Only the wind from a little west of north comes from the land, and this land breeze rarely blows vigorously in central and southern Florida. When it does come it may bring chill- ing wintry blasts from the interior of the continent. Then buds and blossoms are frozen, and even the trees themselves may be killed. Orange growers have learned to protect their orchards during the winter by placing pots of oil or charcoal where they can be lighted to warm the lower air should the wind blow from the north. Climatic conditions in the California citrus region. Southern Cali- fornia is doubly protected from frost by the mild Pacific on the west and high mountains on the east. But even there winds sometimes creep across the mountains on the east, bearing the winter chill of the continent’s interior, with the same results as in Florida. Thus 1913 was a disastrous year for the orange growers in California. They, too, have learned to use the fire-pot to warm the threatened groves. Although oranges are the most important citrus fruits in Florida and California, Florida specializes also in grapefruit, and California in lemons. Special problems of the California growers. California must supply its groves with expensive irrigation water. whereas in Florida | ONITET Ci™ APPP Fic. 57. Citrus fruits can be grown in the United States only where conditions approaching the tropical can be found ; that is, (1) in Florida, (2) in a narrow belt along the Gulf coast, and (3) in southern California. In Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines, the right climatic conditions are found ; but only in Porto Rico has a citrus fruit industry been developed ; there grapefruit of excellent quality are grown for the New York market.

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