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 40 Cer 10 Inche. to 7J Inches +10 30 Inches vt040 Inches to 50 Inches 110 60 Inches J10 80 Inches 010100 Inches Jveri00Inches pin BB 0) ® Fic. 6. By comparing Figures 5 and 6, we see that the heaviest production of cotton comes in regions that have an average annual rainfall of 30 to 50 inches. Without irrigation cotton pro- duction is not possible at all in regions of less than 20 inches of rainfall. More than 50 inches means too many cloudy days for the plants to produce large. firm bolls. seven months of weather free from frost. This limits cotton raising in the United States to the part south of a line drawn from Norfolk, Virginia, to Cairo, Illinois (Fig. 5). The plant also needs ample water in the summer. Hence it cannot be grown in the region of light rains in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, except where irri- gation is practiced. Since the cotton plant must have much bright sunshine, it does not grow well in the coastal region of North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, where there is a great deal of rain and of cloudy weather. If the rainfall is too heavy, the plant produces luxuriant leaves rather than cotton. An exception is a variety of the plant called sea-island cotton, which produces a valuable long fiber in spite of the moisture that prevents the best results with other varieties. This variety gets its name from the low, sandy islands near the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, where it was first grown in this country. Another important condition in cotton growing is the character of the soil. The plant grows best in limy soils or in the deep, rich soils in the valley floors along rivers. Other conditions also help to determine where cotton shall be grown. Until the picking machine is perfected, cotton growing must

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