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

J2 ie or Modern Business Geography Te” ta a " Cow / yo — 1 we et ArUIpAF | L Fre. 71. Sheep raising is the only animal industry that is more important in the southern than in the northern hemisphere. Australia is the leading sheep-raising region of the world. WOr.__ =~ q Lr aN —r ORL: SWINE NUMBER TOT REDPDE CE ALT WORLL 162 BOO OOO Hi Fic. 72. Swine will thrive on the cheaper grains and on potatoes, and are found in settled farming regions where feed for them is cheap. Compare this map with Figures 39. 45. and 48. abundant mutton. The small merino sheep produces the finest wool — sometimes 48,000 fibers to a square inch of skin. Other breeds have large bodies, but their wool is coarse. For decades sheepraisers have been trying to produce breeds that will yield both good wool and a large amount of mutton. They have partially succeeded by producing animals of a *‘ general-purpose ”’ type. Where sheep are raised. Sheep are often more profitable to men than are cattle; for they thrive on lands almost worthless for other purposes. Thus they can live in rugged regions like our own Rocky Mountains, or Switzerland, Turkey, and New Zealand. Such rough lands are thought to be their natural homes.

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