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

30 Modern Business Geography a 1 AB Fig. 17. Plants do not grow and produce crops in temperatures lower than 52°. The shaded belt in this map shows the area, north and south of the equator, in which agriculture goes oi during our winter. South of the southern line of 52° agriculture cannot be carried on. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS The temperature in the United States is highly favorable to farm- ing. The country is not located far enough to the north to have the extremely long winters that prevent agriculture in most of Canada and thus keep that country from reaping the full advantage of its size. Neither is it so far south that it is unfit for raising such crops as barley and wheat. It is fortunately placed, being in the latitudes where many of the crops most desired by the world markets can grow under ideal conditions of temperature. Effect of the uneven rainfall. In rainfall our country is not so fortunate as in temperature. The eastern half, to be sure, has as favorable a rainfall as any part of the world. Because it has frequent cyclonic storms and because no high mountains shut off the interior from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, this half receives rain in abundance. Most of the western half of the United States, on the contrary, gets too little rain for ordinary farming; the rain- bearing winds from the Pacific Ocean are unable to bring enough moisture over the high Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains. Nevertheless, cattle and sheep thrive on the dry grasslands to the east of these ranges. In the northern part of the Pacific slope, in several sections in California, and in the northern Rocky Mountain region, however, there is an abundant rainfall (Fig. 6).

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