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

7 Modern Business Geography Fic. 69. A flock of sheep on a mountain slope in eastern Washington. Sheep crop the grass so close to the ground that the shepherd must keep his flock moving to new pastures where the prass is long enough to provide pasturace. Cattle raising outside the United States. Figure 68 shows that there are far more cattle in densely populated western Europe than in the whole of the United States. Many European cattle are raised in barns. They cannot be turned out to pasture, because prac- tically all the land is needed for crops. Argentina and Uruguay are the great cattle countries of the south- ern hemisphere (Fig. 68). From the vast grasslands of these coun- tries enormous herds are driven amid clouds of dust to the cities, where they are slaughtered. The beef is frozen and sent to the sea- ports for shipment in great refrigerator steamships. On the vast dry plains of southern Russia, the Hungarian plain, and the plains and plateaus of Australia and South Africa, cattle can be raised as easily as on our own western plains and pla- teaus. Many cities, like Buenos Aires and Sydney, owe part of their growth to the fact that they are convenient centers for the business of slaughtering animals and shipping the meat to western Europe. The increasing cost of meat. Even before the World War the price of beef had been rising continually, because the population of the civilized world was increasing more rapidly than the number of cattle. This process is still going on, even though farmers use auto- mobiles and so raise cattle where formerly they raised horses. The

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