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

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3. Modern Business Geography The second section where the raising of beef cattle is the dominant industry includes the grasslands scattered throughout the mountains and plateaus farther west. There are not nearly so many cattle in this section, however, as on the Great Plains. Although the area is larger, the rainfall is less than in the plains, and grass is less abun- dant. In addition to this, much of the land is too rugged for cattle. Feeding cattle for market. In both sections enormous quantities of alfalfa are raised in limited areas favored with irrigation (F ig. 19). This appetizing clover is fed to the cattle during the winter or when the natural pasture fails because of unusual dryness. Alfalfa is used also for fattening the cattle for the market. Some of the cattle in the dry cattle-raising sections become fat on the natural pasture, but the majority are comparatively thin. When they are about three years old, those that are fat are collected into cor- rals in the fall and are driven into freight cars to be shipped directly to the meat-packing centers, such as Kansas City and Chicago. The thin animals are sent to the corn belt. They are purchased by the farmers, who feed them generously upon corn and hay during the winter, and pasture them on good grass for a few months in early spring. Then as sleek, fat cattle, they are sold to the slaughter houses for a sum that pays the farmer a good price not only for his corn and hay, but for his labor. Moreover, the manure from the cattle has enriched the soil of his farm. — EACH DOT REPReS 2000 HE A® UNITED STATES AND CANADA NUMBER OF CATTLE Fia. 67. Comparison with Figure 31, page 47, shows the close relation between corn growing and meat production. It also helps to explain why Chicago, Kansas City, and Omaha are the leading centers of the meat-packing industrv. (Milch cows are not included on this man.)

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