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 9432 Sheep live not only in rugged lands, but in dry lands; they are numerous in regions bordering deserts that are too dry for cattle, such as our western plateaus, the interior of Australia, Spain, and South Africa, and parts of Argentina. This is because they are able to go a long time without water, and their teeth enable them to nibble short grass which horses and cattle cannot possibly eat. Then again, some varieties of sheep thrive in cold, wet regions like the Scotch Highlands and the Falkland Islands, since their thick, greasy wool protects them from both the cold and the rain. Sheep are profitably grown in still another kind of region, — lands near the great meat markets of the northeastern United States and western Europe. Here sheep are grown primarily for meat. In the northeastern United States the farmer buys full-grown sheep that were raised on the ranges of the western states, and fattens them for a few months for the market; or he keeps them for several years in order to raise lambs, which are sold for high prices in the neighboring markets. On his small farm, the farmer of eastern Ohio, for in- stance, can give the lambs much more care than the Wyoming shep- herd, and so can bring a greater proportion of his flock to maturity. The life of the shepherd. The care of sheep is often one of the loneliest of occupations. One man with two dogs and a gun can care for several thousand animals; and for weeks the lonely shepherd may follow his charges without seeing anyone except his camp- tender. In the western United States many of the sheep graze upon the unfenced government lands. In summer they are driven to the mountains; but as the snows of autumn begin to cover the grasses and shrubs they are driven to the lower slopes and then out upon the plateaus. Once a year the shepherd drives his sheep to the dipping pens. There they are thrown into great vats and washed. As soon asthey are dry, a gang of shearers takes them in hand and skillfully clips the thick coat of wool from each member of the flock. The shepherd enjoys the shearing season, for it makes a break in the solitary monotony of his life. SWINE Although the hog is found in all parts of the world, it is only a little more than a third as numerous as cattle and a quarter as numerous as sheep. In fact, horses and donkeys together are three fourths as numerous as hogs. Most of the hogs are raised in the United States and Europe, with a fair number in South America (Fig. 72). In

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