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

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Modern Business Geography —— x AY] pr Lo -Py 20 Ry 7 Y pil . 7 | AY an 0... UNITED STATES AND CANADA AVERAGE ERATURE in JANUARY Bj Fig. 3. The lines for 40° and 60° average temperature in January mark the general limits of the cotton-growing region in the United States. North of 40° to 42° farmers are never certain of a growing season of seven months free from frost. The southern boundary of the cotton belt is set at 60° by the character of the soil rather than the temperature, for the cotton plant is a native of the tropics. 25,000 to 100,000 pounds of fiber from the seed in a day. The gin consists of a revolving cylinder set with rows of saw teeth about half an inch apart. These catch the fiber and draw it through a comb so fine that the seeds cannot follow. It is amazing to see how speedily and handily the work of separat- ing the fiber is carried on. When the farmer draws up to the com- munity cotton gin with his open wagon filled with freshly picked cotton, suction tubes unload the fluffy mass and drop it upon a car- rying belt, which conveys it to the revolving cylinders. It takes only a few minutes for the saw teeth to draw the wagonload of fiber through the combs. Then the seeds are taken back to the wagon, while the cotton fiber is carried to the press to be pressed and bound into a bale weighing nearly five hundred pounds. A few minutes later the bale also is placed on the wagon, and both fiber and seed are soon on their way toward home or toward the railroad. Often the cotton gin is located at the railroad station to make transportation easy. With the invention of the cotton gin the price of the cleaned cotton fell greatly. As cotton cloth became cheaper, more people used it, and the people who had formerly used it wanted still more.

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