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 45 for rain, while the boy prays that it will be clear. When at last the hot winds stop blowing and the rain falls, the farmer's satisfaction is mingled with the fear that the rain may turn to hail. If good fortune smiles on the wheat farmer, the stems grow rapidly, and in time the wheat ¢ heads out” ; that is, the seeds begin to form in the heads. Now if rust does not appear upon the stems or smut among the seed, the crop will be big—a ‘bumper crop,” the farmer would say. Nearly all the dangers have been passed. Under the hot sun the field changes slowly from green to lighter hues until the golden yellow shows that it is ready to harvest. The farmer enjoys one other scene even more than the field of rip- ened wheat. That he sees after the crop has been cut and the seed threshed out of the heads. He takes his way to the nearest railroad, driving a wagon loaded with wheat and leading a second wagon, while his sons and hired men may follow in the same way. The wheat procession is repeated many times, for the farmer has not enough wagons, horses, and men to take all the big harvest at once. This procession means the end of his worries and the reward for all his work, provided he is sure that he can sell at a good price. How machinery does the work on a wheat farm. Methods of planting, harvesting, and threshing wheat are nowhere more ad- F'16. 30. The use of power-driven machinery in farming is not yet a hundred years old. It has made possible the production of huge crops on wide stretches of new land. This combination harvester, run by eight men, cuts, threshes, winnows, and sacks 120 acres a day. By the old hand methods, the most expert reaper could cut only 3 to 4 acres a day, and often the grain was spoiled by rain before it could be gathered into stacks or carried to the barn for threshing

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