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

Cereal Farming 11 France, and many other countries in both the northern and the southern temperate zone. Rye bread is a staple food in Germany and in northern and central Russia; oatmeal in Scotland ; barley bread in Norway, Sweden, and northern Prussia; corn bread in Mexico, Central America, Rumania, and Egypt; and rice and millet for eight hundred million people in India, China, Japan, and the East Indies. As a rule the cereal most used in a country is the one which produces the largest crops with the least trouble. How great crops are raised. Although the crops that are raised today are not nearly so large as the farmers wish, they are far larger than were once raised. Ever since the days when primitive man first began to cultivate the bearded wild wheat which still grows on the hills of Palestine, the farmers have been making improvements in the cereals them- selves and in the methods of raising them. [n the first place, the early farmers tried again and again to see what kind of crop would grow best in their particular climate and soil, and what crop was the best for food. Some are still trying to solve this problem. For instance, the United States government cooperates with the farmers in trying to find wheat that will withstand drought, corn that can endure low temperature, and rice that will yield large Crops with little or no irrigation. Another problem was how to prevent the soil from losing its fertility. Early in the history of agriculture man found out about the use of animal fertilizers. Later he discovered that some crops, when plowed under, would benefit the soil. When it was learned that soil can be enriched by the use of substances known as commercial fertilizers, — such as guano, lime, and phosphate rock, — the problem was to discover the right kind and amount for each crop. One of the chief ways of improving crops is to select the seed of those plants that produce the best and largest crops. So great have been the changes in the cereal plants that today a cornstalk, for ex- ample, may be five to ten times as tall as its remote ancestor and may produce ten to twenty times as much seed.

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