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

94 Modern Business Geography China, they provide the poor man’s meat ; it is seldom that the ordi- nary Chinese family has any other meat than pork. They are ab- sent from large parts of Africa and Asia because the Mohammedan religion forbids its followers to eat the meat of swine in any form. Hogs are valuable animals, because they will live on all sorts of food, are tame and hardy, and yield a large amount of nourishing meat. Many hogs weigh more than four hundred pounds when eleven months old. Moreover, they increase rapidly in number, for there are often ten or a dozen pigs in a litter. Swine are important from the standpoint of commerce only where many are raised on a large scale and the dressed meat is sent else- where for consumption. This occurs in only a few places, where hog feed can be grown at low cost. QUESTIONS, EXERCISES, AND PROBLEMS A. Dairying in the United States. 1. Compare the distribution of dairying with the distribution of popula- tion. From Figure 64 determine which quarter of the United States has the greatest number of dairy cows. Why? Compare Wisconsin on the dairying map with the same state on the population map (Fig. 164). What two large cities draw upon south- eastern Wisconsin for their milk supply? Name two products which are manufactured in that state from milk. How does the presence of many Dutch, Belgians, Swiss, Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians in Wisconsin help to account for the state’s prominence in dairying? Why do so many “ foreign-style ”’ cheeses come from there ? Figure 73 shows how much milk is sold per inhabitant each year in New York, Pennsylvania, and northern New Jersey. Find from what regions each of the following cities draws its milk supply: (a) New York, (5) Phila- delphia, (¢) Buffalo, (d) Pittsburgh. Which city is obliged to go farthest? Why? Explain how the location of these cities has influenced the loca- tion of the dairy farms. The United States uses more than seven billion gallons of milk per year. About how many gallons is this per person? Where is your share pro- duced? Do you use more or less than the average? Can you ex- plain why your proportion seems large p ) Fig. 73. Distribution of milk production in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsyl- vania. This shows the territory from which milk is supplied to New York City and to Philadelphia

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