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 29 made at home from cotton grown in India. China furnishes an even larger market than India for foreign cotton goods, but her foreign trade is not so well developed as India’s. The by-products of cotton. The consumption of the cotton fibers in clothing, homes, and industries does not tell the full story of the cotton farmers’ contribution to the world’s market. We have yet to consider the cotton seeds that were separated from the fibers in the gin (page 3). Their weight is twice as great as that of the fibers, and their bulk for the full crop is enormous. Cottonseed oil. For many years the accumulation of the seeds was a great annoyance to the cotton farmer, who got rid of them by burning them or dumping them into the river. Now that the value of the oil they contain is known, they yield him an important part of his profit. The oil which is pressed out is an excellent food for man. It is like olive oil, and serves as a substitute for butter and lard. The oil is also manufactured into soap, candles, and plates for phonograph records. Oil cake. The “cake” that is left when the oil is extracted is one of the best foods for dairy cows; moreover, the manure from cake-fed cows is a good fertilizer. Cotton farmers are learning that by keep- ing cows they can reap three profits, — a money profit from the fiber, a food profit from the cake-fed cows, and a soil profit from the manure. Dairymen are willing to pay such high prices for cotton- seed cake that it is profitable to ship it to the Northern states and Canada, and even to western Europe. The hulls. Half the weight of the seed is the hull that is taken off before the rest is made into oil and cake. For a long time the hulls were burned to furnish power for the oil presses, and the ashes were used for fertilizing the soil, especially for tobacco and vegetables. Now the hulls are used instead of hay in fattening cattle for market. CONCLUSION We have now traced the story of cotton through the field of pri- mary production, along various transportation routes, through the complicated manufacturing field, into the field of consumption. For almost every commodity a similar story can be written, with chapters on primary production, transportation, manufacturing, and consumption. Of course the chapters would vary in length and interest with different commodities. Thus the first chapter of the story of wood or marble would be very different from that of cotton. For some products the manufacturing chapter would be brief; or it

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