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 vw 2) B. Wheat as an important article of commerce. A CompaRIsON oF THE WORLD'S IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF WHEAT (I) NorMaL Imports oF WHEAT IN BUSHELS United Kingdom Germany [taly . France . Japan (ID ToraL [\PORT" 220 N00," Qn N50 ° 30," 0 13,000 25.000.( > NL NorvaL Exports ~ YT r- ImpPoRTS ~=Rr CAPIT YieLD PER ACRE i X CRE Canada . United State: Argentina Russia . Australia Rumania India . 250, 173,770 2049 30,020,000 00,090,000 100,090,000 50,000,007 25.000.000 ) 9 2 L. 2 Why do the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy import so much wheat ? Why does Japan, with a third more people than the United Kingdom, import only a fraction as much wheat ? Compare the yield per acre in importing and exporting countries. Why do the importers need wheat when the yield from their own farms is so high? Why is it so high? Rearrange all the countries in the wheat tables given above, according to the amount of wheat produced per acre. Be ready to ask a good question as to the position of each country in this new list. | How do you explain the fact that India exports far less wheat than Canada, though she raises almost as much ? Why does Australia export less than Canada and Argentina? Although Russia raises much wheat, her people eat relatively little. In which part of Russia is wheat chiefly eaten? Why? (Fig. 43.) 3 | 3. 6. 7. C. How the scientific farmer reaps his reward. I. The average yield of corn per acre among the farmers of the United States is about 27 bushels; among the Connecticut farmers, it is about 80 per cent greater ; among the members of Boys’ Corn Clubs, about 80 bushels. The prize winners among the boys often produce more than 160 bushels per acre. By what methods do the bovs increase the vield ?

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