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

The Sources of Animal Products 01 faster our population grows the more necessary it becomes that the people of Europe and America, like those of the Orient, learn to use more of such foods as beans, fish, and milk. For a given amount of food. milk needs much less farm land than beef. SHEEP AND WOOL Sheep are, if anything, more generous to man than cattle or swine. They yield not only meat that is highly prized and leather that is especially useful for shoes and bookbindings, but wool that is con- verted into clothing, hats, and blankets. Moreover, sheep can thrive in a great variety of climates. It is not surprising, therefore, that sheep are raised throughout the inhabited world wherever grass can be found, or that they are the most numerous domestic animals, aside from hens. Sheep in the tropics. Within the tropics, however, the warmth makes sheep become hairy, like goats, instead of woolly, and the poor and limited supply of grass makes them lean and lanky. There the skin is the most valuable part of a sheep, and it is not worth while to raise them for the sake of exporting this one product. In the temperate zones. In the temperate zones sheep are covered with wool of good quality and are fat enough to yield large quantities of mutton. But the same sheep rarely produces both fine wool and UNITED ST SHEEP AND LAME (ON FARMS AND RANT" NUMBER JAN. {, EACH DOT REPRESEN 5 000 HEAD Fig. 70. In the West, sheep are raised chiefly in the Rocky Mountain states and on semi-arid lands. In the East, the industry tends to be concentrated in the hilly pasture sections of Ohio and southern Michigan.

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