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

The Vegetable Farm and the Truck Garden 63 2 S Stay ma "aad - "YORL OTATOF ACREAGE REPRESENTS 98 0° WORLD PRODUCTI. 8.477.274 000 BUSHELS Fic. 48. Potatoes, like corn, are grown on nearly every farm in the United States; but only in a few parts are more grown than can be consumed locally. Although the potato is a native of the New World, nine tenths of the world’s crop is now grown in Europe. Our hot, dry summers are not so favorable for potato growing as the cooler, moister summers of western Europe. In Europe, rye and potatoes are grown in much the same belt; they are the poor man’s main crops. Outside of North America and Europe, practically no potatoes are grown. belt extends from Ireland across northern Europe to eastern Russia. In the moist, cool climate of Ireland this vegetable is one of the crops that thrive best; hence it is sometimes called the Irish potato. Throughout the whole of England, Belgium, and most of Ger- many, the production of potatoes per acre is as great as in Aroostook, our prize county. In proportion to her population, Germany, the greatest of potato countries, raises seven times as many potatoes as the United States. Of the twenty-seven bushels per person which Germany raises each year on an average, about seven or eight are used on the table; ten or more are fed to the pigs, as we feed corn; about three are used for potato flakes, flour, and alcohol; while the rest are exported. Although the potato is an American vegetable, first found by the white man more than four hundred years ago in Peru, 90 per cent of the world’s crop is now grown in Europe. Sweet potatoes. Among the vegetables of the world as a whole, the sweet potato stands next to the white potato in commercial im- portance. Like its northern companion it can thrive in a sandy soil. But, unlike the hardy white potatoes, sweet potatoes do best in a warm climate. Hence they are raised throughout the southern states. They are most abundant, however, on the sandy plains of New Jersey, Delaware, and the eastern shore of Maryland; for although the climate there is a little cool for them, the region is near

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