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 65 will not produce good seed in the tropics. Europeans and Americans who live in the torrid zone find that they must import seed annually from their homes In the temperate zone in order to raise good vege- tables. In China and Japan vegetables are a particularly important source of food. The people are so numerous and land is so scarce that the farmers are forced to raise the plants that give the greatest possible amount of food. Vegetables serve this purpose admirably, since with great care and much fertilizing a very large yield can be ob- tained. A journey through an Oriental country shows an almost constant succession of gardens, with vegetables always prominent. The soy bean is perhaps the most important vegetable of China and Japan, since, when combined with rice, it supplies almost all that is needed in the way of food. It takes the place of meat, which is too expensive for most Chinese and Japanese families. OUESTIONS, EXERCISES, AND PROBLEMS A. The importance of vegetables in man’s diet. | Let two members of the class list all the varieties of vegetables they can find in such books as J. Russell Smith’s Food Resources of the World and Crissey’s The Story of Foods. At the same time let every other member of the class make a list of all the kinds of vegetables he has ever tasted. Compare your list with the general list. Which of those that you have never tasted are grown in your state? Which are grown in an entirely different climate? Which can be obtained fresh in city markets, but at a high price? Which can be obtained only canned. dried, or pre- served ? During how much of the year would you be able to have these vegetables if the science of canning were unknown and if there were no railroads, steamships, or motor trucks? What do you conclude about the diet of people who lived before 1800, when there were no steam or gasoline engines? During the winter, how did people then get the vitamins that are needed as part of every diet? Why vegetables come from many different sources. In a large vegetable market ask the market man about the region from which his different vegetables come. In your notebook make a list of the vegetables and opposite each write the name of the place where it was grown. If the market man is not sure of his answers, perhaps the names on his crates and boxes will help you ; or you can probably find out what you wish to know from Crissey’s The Story of Foods. Select from the list those vegetables that were raised within a few miles of your town. Try to find out why these are produced locally. Per- haps a certain vegetable is produced locally because the soil is just the kind needed, or the climate is favorable, or your local market is willing 7 i

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