Modern business geography

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

Modern Business Geography United States Reclamation Service Fig. 53. Sugar beets growing on the irrigated land of the Salt River vroiect. in Arizona. fact helps to explain why eastern Michigan is prominent in the beet industry. But the best place for beets is in the irrigated lands of the dry West, where the cool but sunny weather of the long autumn causes the beets to grow large and sugary. That is one reason why Colorado, California, Utah, and Idaho are important producers of beet sugar. In those states, throughout the winter months, large factories receive a constant stream of wagons and trains, bearing the beet crop. At the factories the beets are washed, sliced, and soaked in hot water to take out the juice. The juice is partly purified with lime and acid, and then is filtered. Next itis heated until the water evapo- rates, leaving the sugar as damp, brownish crystals. These crystals are purified, whitened, and broken into the granulated table sugar that we know so well. Sugar beets outside the United States. The cool climate with mod- erate summer rainfall and fairly sunny autumns in which sugar beets thrive is found in much of northern Europe from northern France to central Russia (Fig. 54). Beets are an especially important crop in central Germany and Bohemia. This is partly because farm labor is cheap in that region, and partly because, with population so dense that there is not room for pasturage, the people find it profitable to feed their cattle on the pulp that is left after the sugar has been ex- tracted from the beets. Moreover, there is a large market for sugar

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Modern business geography

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation