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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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states; but milk, butter and cheese are valuable products in nearly all parts of the prairies, as well as in the states farther east. The United States exports beef and cattle of.J.:■•?■•■■„, immense value to Great Britain and Ger- many. Large quantities of dairyproducts and leather also are ex-ported to the same countries. 126. Sheep. Wool ranks in value andusefulness next to cotton asa cloth-making fiber, but inour country more woolenthan cotton cloth is made.All the gold and silver oremined each year in theUnited States would not payone third of the woolen cloth Beef and Dairy Products. cattle of that portion of the country are therefore mostly used near the places where they are raised. Chicago has ,, , , * J & a year, — or twice the value of the yearly output ot gold and silver in grown to be the largest meat-market in the world.1 our entire country. made here in the same time. 1 The meat products of this city have a value of about $200,000,000 136 FISHERIES.
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There are three principal districts inwhich large numbers of sheep are raised.One of these includes the Allegheny plateauand extends westward over the prairies; another is inTexas; the third lies west of the Sierra Nevada. Thereare also many sheep in the Rocky mountain states. In our country most of the woolen mills, as well asthe cotton mills, are in New England, New York andPennsylvania. Boston is a great wool market, because it distributesthis fiber to the mills of New England. In the manufactureof woolen carpets, Philadelphia ranks first in the world. In the production of wool the leading regions of the world areeastern Australia and New Zealand; the Plata river basin ; GreatBritain ; the steppes of Russia ; and the United States. Our country must import wool and sheepskins, because it usesmore than it produces ; but the other regions export these products,— chiefly to Great Britain, France and Germany. I 127. Fisheries. Oysters. Oysters are salt-water shellfish and arethe most

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