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

The United States as a Farming Country oh tp - Fie. 16. Western Europe has about one fourth the land area of the United States, with about 50,000,000 more people to be supported by the land. Would you expect such a region to be mainly agricultural or mainly industrial ? Basin district which lies between the Rocky Mountains and the Coast Ranges, are too dry; others, like the Rocky Mountain district, are too rugged. Still, there remains nearly half of the area of the United States that can be successfully farmed. System of cultivation. As yet, most of this favorable half has been farmed only by the method of exfensive cultivation; that is, crops are planted once a year over broad areas, with little or no fertilizer, and are largely left to take care of themselves until har- vest time. This method means a small yield per acre, but it allows one man, with the help of horses and machines, to cultivate many acres, so that large returns are possible. Our crops might be doubled or even trebled if our lands were to be as inlensively cultivated as most of western Europe, China, and Japan. In those regions, with the help of fertilizers and with proper care to remove the weeds, much of the land commonly yields two large crops a year. As our population increases, farming will pre- sumably become less extensive and more intensive; for the area of new lands that can be occupied is fast diminishing. Under inten- sive cultivation the great size of our country will be a factor even more important than it is now in maintaining our agricultural leader- ship among the nations.

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