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Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
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cool belts are often called the belts of grains.Indian corn, wheat, rye, oats and barley are raised innearly all parts of these belts. Among the leading nations, wheat is the grain mostwidely used for food. The crops that supply the marketsof the world are raised chiefly in the prairies and otherplains of the cool belts. Corn is another valuable grain. It was raisedby the Indians long before the white man cameto this country. Corn is a rapid grower and iswide-spread over the coolbelts and the lands stillnearer the equator. Thisgrain is bettersuited to theprairies havinghot summers,than to theBritish Isleswith their mildweather last-ing nearly-all the year. Rye, oatsand barleyare hardygrains andthrive in Linen cloth and thread are made from the silkyfibers that form an inner bark rouncstalk of flax. Linseed oil is pressedfrom flaxseed. This oil is largelyused in paints. Hemp is used in making ropesand coarse cloth. Many hard-wood trees,such as the oak, maple walnut,the warmer parts of
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most partsof the coolbelts.Barley is per-haps the mostwide-spread ofgrains. It growsboth upon the Arcticshore of Norway and inthe valley of the upper Nile,not far from the equator.Flax and hemp thrive in thecool belts. Next to cotton, flax is the mostvaluable of the fiber plants the cool belts. Forests of cone - bearing trees, called evergreens, thrive in the colder parts of these belts, both on plains and highlands. Trees of this kind abound also on the cool mountain sides in the warm and the hot belts. The pine, spruce, fir, hemlock and cedar sup-ply the most useful soft-wood timber. Thegiant trees of California belong in this group.The cone-bearers are of great value. Theyare very wide-spread ; their wood is light and strong ;they yield tar, pitch, rosin and turpentine. Try to findout the uses of these products. Orchard fruits, hay and vegetables thrive in manyparts of these belts. Vegetables are not generally raised on such a large scale asthe grains, yet the scattered vegetable c

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