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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Cereal Farming 17 wheat belt. The methods used in the Canadian wheat lands, which are the northward extension of those of the Dakotas, are of the same progressive sort. Where the region is rugged, as in the Appalachian Mountains, wheat is raised only on the valley floors. Since the farms are small, the farmer cannot afford expensive machinery, and therefore human labor plays a large part in all farming operations. CORN It is difficult for one who does not live in the great corn region to realize how important this cereal is to the United States. ‘ King Corn” rules the land; he can bring prosperity or want. When he smiles upon the farmers with abundant crops, prosperity spreads far and wide. When he frowns with crop failures, business depres- sion often follows and poverty knocks at many a door. Our greatest crop. In a good corn year the United States raises more than three billion bushels. This amount would give thirty bushels to every man, woman, and child in the United States. What becomes of the thirty bushels? No matter how much a person may relish freshly cooked sweet corn, or corn that is canned, popped, or hulled, UNITED ST CORN PRN" ICH DOT REPRESE! 200,000 BUSHELS Fig. 31. Corn, or maize, was the only grain that Europeans found under cultivation in North America. The Six Nations had cornfields which they cultivated year after year. There are about 7,000,000 farms in this country, and some corn is grown on most of them. But corn growing on a large scale is not so widespread as wheat growing (Fig. 28). (Corn demands a season of clear, warm sunshine and warm nights, with frequent light rains during the growing season. In the Corn Belt, which stretches across western Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and eastern Nebraska, corn growers find the right conditions of soil, sunshine, and rainfall. Corn is our most valuable crop.

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