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 UNITED STATES AND CANADA * GE T1JRE x ) wo Fic. 4. Being tropical in its origin, the cotton plant requires a higher temperature than do the cereal crops, as well as a longer growing season. It grows best where the summer temperature averages at least 77°. Comparison of Figure 4 with Figure 5 shows that the bulk of the cotton crop is raised south of the line which marks an average temperature of K0° in July. Farmers found cotton a more profitable crop than before and grew more of it. Since the invention of the gin, cotton has become the clothing of almost all the world. The story of cotton shows how the invention of even a single machine may affect the occupations and habits of many people in all parts of the world. Why cotton growing is limited to certain parts of the United States. In order to produce abundant fiber the cotton plant requires “INITED Cc DR E20 es O00 FA ~ Fig. 5. The eastern and western boundaries of the cotton region are determined largely by the rainfall (Fig. 6). Notice the three areas of especially heavy production: (1) the uplands bor- dering the Atlantic coastal plains; (2) the level river lands along the Mississippi in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas; (3) the plains of east central Texas. Some cotton is now grown in the irrigated areas of southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico, where soil and climate are suit- able but rainfall is lacking. Cotton is the second crop in the country in money value, corp atandine first in this respect. (Agriculture Yearbook, 1921. UU. 8. Department of Agriculture.)

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