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Modern Business Geography
China, they provide the poor man’s meat ; it is seldom that the ordinary
Chinese family has any other meat than pork. They are absent
from large parts of Africa and Asia because the Mohammedan
religion forbids its followers to eat the meat of swine in any form.
Hogs are valuable animals, because they will live on all sorts of
food, are tame and hardy, and yield a large amount of nourishing
meat. Many hogs weigh more than four hundred pounds when
eleven months old. Moreover, they increase rapidly in number, for
there are often ten or a dozen pigs in a litter.
Swine are important from the standpoint of commerce only where
many are raised on a large scale and the dressed meat is sent elsewhere
for consumption. This occurs in only a few places, where hog
feed can be grown at low cost.
QUESTIONS, EXERCISES, AND PROBLEMS
A. Dairying in the United States.
1. Compare the distribution of dairying with the distribution of population.
From Figure 64 determine which quarter of the United States has
the greatest number of dairy cows. Why?
Compare Wisconsin on the dairying map with the same state on the
population map (Fig. 164). What two large cities draw upon southeastern
Wisconsin for their milk supply? Name two products which are
manufactured in that state from milk. How does the presence of many
Dutch, Belgians, Swiss, Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians in Wisconsin
help to account for the state’s prominence in dairying? Why do so
many “ foreign-style ”’ cheeses come from there ?
Figure 73 shows how much milk is sold per inhabitant each year in New
York, Pennsylvania, and northern
New Jersey. Find from what regions
each of the following cities draws its
milk supply: (a) New York, (5) Philadelphia,
(¢) Buffalo, (d) Pittsburgh.
Which city is obliged to go farthest?
Why? Explain how the location of
these cities has influenced the location
of the dairy farms.
The United States uses more than
seven billion gallons of milk per year.
About how many gallons is this per
person? Where is your share produced?
Do you use more or less
than the average? Can you explain
why your proportion seems
large p
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Fig. 73. Distribution of milk production
in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
This shows the territory from
which milk is supplied to New York City
and to Philadelphia
