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

78 Modern Business Geography the rains are sufficient. California, too, is more than twice as far as Florida from the greatest citrus-fruit markets — St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. These handicaps have been largely overcome by an efficient codperative organization of the growers, with the result that the fruit is picked, packed, shipped, and marketed to the best advantage. Florida growers are slowly following the California example of working together. Orange growing outside the United States. Oranges and lemons are grown in many tropical and semi-tropical regions, but they enter into commerce only on the edges of these regions, near highly civilized countries of the temperate zone. Thus the Mediterranean countries, especially Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Algeria, raise oranges and lem- ons for the countries to the north and ship them thither by both rail and steamer. Although the California industry is rapidly expand- ing, the United States still receives six or seven million dollars’ worth of lemons annually from Italy. BANANAS Among the fruits of the torrid zone the most important are bananas. In many tropical lands of abundant rainfall, bananas are as important to the people as are the cereals in the temperate zone. Some are as big as a man’s arm; a single one of this kind makes a good meal for three men. Others are as small as one’s finger, sweet and delicately flavored. Some are yellow and slender, others red and fat. Some are eaten raw, but many require cooking. Among the tropical people who really live on bananas, the cooking varieties are much the most important. The flower bud and the soft new shoots are eaten as salad. There are seventy kinds of bananas in the Philippines alone. How bananas are grown. The people of many tropical regions use a great many bananas because it is easy to raise them. A sucker from an older tree is set into the ground. Within less than a year a great fat stem like a cornstalk fifteen feet high bends over under the weight of a huge bunch of bananas, which often hangs within easy reach from the ground. When the fruit is ripe the stalk dies; but as other stalks have sprung meanwhile from the same root, there is nearly always a supply of ripe bananas. The regions that export bananas. Bananas for export are raised only in those regions of the torrid zone that are within easy reach of densely populated parts of the temperate zone. This is because the fruit is perishable. Thus the United States gets its supply from the West Indies and Central America, especially from Jamaica. Guate-

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