Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

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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

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Modern Business Geography EP CEC Ellsworth Huntington Fic. 29. Wheat harvesting in Turkestan. In Asiatic countries and in many parts of Europe wheat is still harvested with the sickle, as here, or with the scythe (Fig. 42). Behind the reaper follow the workers who tie the fallen stalks into sheaves, which are gathered into stacks that stand in the field until they can be carted to the threshing floor. There the grain is threshed by hand or by being trampled under the feet of animals and is then winnowed by hand. This is the way harvesting is shown on the Egyptian monuments, which record for us the wheat farming of forty centuries ago. for their wheat than do those in Nebraska and Kansas. This helps to pay for extra hand labor, but does not lead to large production. Satisfactions and anxieties of the wheat farmer. The wheat farmer, like every other farmer, has his special worries. If he plants winter wheat, he watches the weather carefully in the autumn to see whether the tiny plants will get enough rain to make them vigorous before the coming of winter. Then he looks for signs of the Hessian fly that attacks the wheat plant near the base, causing the leaves to turn yellow and die. He knows that if many flies appear in the autumn they may become so numerous in spring as to ruin the crop. Toward the end of winter the farmer watches his fields anxiously to see if there are many brown leaves, which would show that his wheat has been * winter killed.” But with the opening of spring, warmer weather and good rains cause the fields to turn green. Yet even in the spring the farmer’s troubles are not over, for after the grain has begun to grow rapidly, it may be injured by a severe storm. When the crop should be having good rains and the weather con- tinues fair, he watches every cloud as anxiously as does a boy on the morning of a championship baseball game; but the farmer hopes

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