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

Collection:: Economics Books

Modern Business Geography United States Department of Agriculture Fig. 32. One of the members of a Boys’ Corn Club in South Carolina and the corn that he grew. [n an ordinary year the Corn Club members raise an average of 75 bushels to the acre in regions where 30 bushels to the acre is considered a good average crop, and some boys raise 200 bushels. Careful seed selection and intensive cultivation explain the high yield. or hominy, corn flakes, corn cakes, or other corn dishes, it would be almost impossible for him to eat in a year the thirty bushels that rep- resent his share. In a year each of us eats scarcely more than a bushel or two of corn. But we do consume much of the remainder of our share in the form of bacon, pork, lard, ham, beef, and other meat products; for hogs and cattle eat vast quantities of corn. It is the best cereal for fattening stock, partly because it contains more oil than any other. The rest of our share of the thirty bushels of corn is exported in the form of these same cattle products. Corn is a truly American crop. It was king in America even before the coming of the white man. In those days Europeans had never heard of it. The early settlers soon learned about it from the Indians, who scratched the soil with a stick and put fish in the hills for fertilizer before dropping in the grain. Since then corn has been carried to many lands, but its most important production is still in America. Why corn thrives in our corn belt. The United States, as we have seen, raises nearly three fourths of the world’s crop of corn. As corn is grown in every state in the Union, it is easy for almost any American boy or girl to see just how it is planted, cultivated, and

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