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:: Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

Cotton [Iniled States Department of Agriculiure Fic. 2. The entire cotton crop of the United States, which now averages about 11,000,000 bales a year, must be picked by hand. A picker can pick enough for one bale of ginned cotton in about six davs. The harvest lasts between three and four months. The most successful of these machines can be used only in fields where the ground is hard enough to support its weight. It resembles a small gasoline automobile, and it traveis over the cotton plants about as fast as a man can walk, plucking the fiber with steel fingers so deftly that it injures neither the plant nor the unopened bolls. Ifa machine meeting all requirements were to be invented, it would speed- ily lower the price of cotton goods; for then a farmer would be able to grow as much cotton as his land would allow, whereas now he is limited by the number of pickers he can secure. If more cotton were grown, the price of the fiber might come down, and the price of cotton goods might be lower. After the cotton is gathered, the next step is to separate the fiber from the small, dark seeds, to which it clings closely. In the early days, when this was done by hand, it was a slow and difficult task, and one person could separate scarcely two pounds of fiber a day. Then cotton cloth was more expensive than woolen or linen, and even more costly than silk is now. In 1792 Eli Whitney changed all this by in- venting the cotton gin. Many improvements have been made in the gin since 1792, and now a single machine is able to separate from

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