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:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

-— rg Modern Business Geography GENERAL CONDITIONS OF FARMING IN THE UNITED STATES The position of the United States as a farming country. Although in proportion to its population the United States has fewer farmers than many other countries, it is the leading farming country of the world. No other country grows such large crops of corn, cotton, tobacco, and wheat, and none has a greater variety of products. The United States excels Russia in the production of oats. It grows about four fifths of the world’s corn crop, three fifths of the cotton, one third of the tobacco, one fourth of the oats, and one fifth of the wheat. Why the United States leads in farming. The leadership of the United States in farming is due to many causes: (1) the great size of the country; (2) its favorable climate; (3) the energy of the farmers; ’4) the intelligence and inventiveness of the American people; (5) the freshness of the soil; and (6) the transportation facilities for market- ing the crops. In addition to these another cause may be mentioned : 7) the aid. given by the government. It must not be inferred that the United States is ahead of all other countries in every condition enumerated above. Russia, including Siberia, far exceeds it in size; France has a better climate; Holland has farmers who are equally energetic and intelligent; England has better roads and more convenient railroads; Australia has equally good soil ; and Germany has given more governmental assistance to the farmers. It is doubtful, however, whether any other one country has so happy a combination of these fortunate conditions as the United States. SIZE OF THE COUNTRY The leadership of the United States in farming rests to a large extent upon its size (Fig. 16). If it were not for its great size, the United States could not count its annual crop of corn, of wheat, and of oats in billions of bushels, of hay in scores of millions of tons, of tobacco in hundreds of millions of pounds, and of cotton in millions of bales. Other equal areas in Europe, India, and China do indeed produce much larger crops than the United States, because they have many more people ; but no other region gets so much advantage from mere size. Europe is divided into many countries, which is a great hin- drance to commerce and hence to production; while in India and China transportation is not so well developed as in the United States. Extent of the tillable area. It is true that not all of our country can be used for farming. Some large areas. such as most of the Great

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