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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ow ~ Fig. 47. Truck gardening is a more intensive form of agriculture than cereal farming. It takes many acres of carefully cultivated land, as in this truck farm in the state of New York, to pro- vide the great cities of the country with fresh vegetables and to supply the demands of the can- neries. CHAPTER FOUR THE VEGETABLE FARM AND THE TRUCK GARDEN VEGETABLE farming is an important industry in densely populated regions, like the plains of India and China, or western Europe and the northeastern United States. In Japan and China, except in the cities, nearly every family raises its own vegetables in tiny, well cultivated plots. Even in northern China three crops are often raised on the same land each year. One plot may produce early cabbages, followed by melons, and then by radishes; another may give a crop of winter wheat, then onions, and finally late cabbages. In western Europe and the northeastern United States the number of gardens is relatively less than in Japan and China, for a smaller percentage of the people practice agriculture, even in the villages. For this reason, and because so many people live in great cities, it is profitable for the farmers to raise far more vegetables than they consume themselves. Truck gardening. Raising vegetables for a city population is called fruck gardening. From spring till fall the local truck gar- deners send to the great cities a constant stream of fresh vegetables. Almost every kind of conveyance is used, from the leisurely farm wagon to the speedy motor truck and the fast express train. The vegetables are sold in the great city markets or at the corner grocery, or are peddled from house to house. Many of them lose their fresh- ness and much of their value long before they reach the consumer. 81

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