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

The Sources of Animal Products 1g. 65. Dairy cattle in western Washington, where the long, cool summers, with light but frequent rains. are favorable to pasturage. How the city is supplied with milk. Some of the milk comes from farms hundreds of miles from the city. Some comes from big farms that boast of scores of cows, and some from small farms that keep only two or three. On the first stage of the journey from producer to consumer a large can is carried to the nearest railroad station or electric car line. There the can is put into a milk car with many other cans of milk from other farms. At some central point milk cars from several routes are combined to form a milk-express train which speeds cityward. In the city the milk is bottled and dis- tributed to the customers. The collection and distribution of milk suggest a great river system. The widely scattered milk farms represent the innumerable sources of the system. The gathering of the milk in greater and greater quan- tities is like the joining of tiny rills to form brooks, brooks to form streams, and streams to form the main trunk river. Then the city is like the delta of ariver; as the waters of a great river reach all parts of the delta by means of many distributaries, so the great milk supply reaches all parts of the city along the routes of the distributors. How dairy cows are cared for. But these are matters that con- cern the transportation and consumption of milk. Let us go back

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Modern business geography

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation