International trade

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Identifikator:: 1758394757

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-136209

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Taussig, Frank William http://d-nb.info/gnd/120199459

Title:: International trade

Place of publication:: New York, NY

Publisher:: Macmillan

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XXI, 425 Seiten; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. Problems of verification

Collection:: Economics Books

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AND PROTECTION 183 history and outcome of the endeavors to promote by protective duties the beet sugar industry. The beet sugar industry of the United States, as it now (1925) stands, is in the main massed in the far west — California, Utah, Colorado, and the adjacent region. The agricultural belt of the central states has a very slender share. Only one state in this part of the country, Michigan, makes a considerable contribution to the supply. Barring Michigan, the production of beet sugar may be said to be confined to the Rocky Mountain and Pacific states. The explanation of this geographical concentration does not lie in any obstacles from climate or soil in other parts of the coun- try. The beet flourishes over a very wide area. An instructive pamphlet issued by the Department of Agriculture shows the zone in which the sugar-beet may be expected to “attain its highest perfection.” This zone or belt, two hundred miles wide, starts at the Hudson, sweeps across the country, and includes a great part of the north central region. Yet in the last mentioned, the most important and productive agricultural region of the country, there is virtually no beet growing or sugar making, except, as just mentioned, in Michigan. And the fundamental reason for the absence of beet growing and hence of sugar-beet production in this region is to be found in the fact that agriculture is applied with greater effectiveness in other directions. It is not that the climate or soil or even the men make it more difficult to grow beets here than in Europe. It is simply that other ways of using the land are found more advantageous. The case is a representative one, and it will be worth while to consider it in some detail. An excellent investigator on the agricultural aspects of the beet sugar industry has said : “The growing of beets is not agriculture, but horticulture.” All the manuals and pamphlets insist on the need of elaborate preparation, minute care, much labor directly in the fields. The planting of the seed does indeed take place by drills, the plants coming up in continuous rows. But after this ! Professor G. W. Shaw, of the University of California; see the pamphlet on Sugar Beets in the San Joaquin Valley. The passages quoted in the text are partly from Professor Shaw's pamphlet, partly from other sources.

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