Commercial geography : a book for high schools, commercial courses, and business colleges . ucts are of the best quality. AmongEuropean states Eussia alone surpasses Germany in thenumber of cattle grown. The province of Schleswig-Hol-stein is famous the world over for its fine cattle. Cavalryhorses are a special feature of the lowland plain, and thegovernment is the chief buyer. The wool product hashitherto been important, but the sheep ranges are beingturned into crop lands, on account of the increase of popu-lation in the industrial regions. The midland belt, however, between the coast-plain
Commercial geography : a book for high schools, commercial courses, and business colleges . ucts are of the best quality. AmongEuropean states Eussia alone surpasses Germany in thenumber of cattle grown. The province of Schleswig-Hol-stein is famous the world over for its fine cattle. Cavalryhorses are a special feature of the lowland plain, and thegovernment is the chief buyer. The wool product hashitherto been important, but the sheep ranges are beingturned into crop lands, on account of the increase of popu-lation in the industrial regions. The midland belt, however, between the coast-plain andthe mountains, is the chief food-producing part of Ger-many. Rye and wheat are grown wherever possible, butthe entire grain-crop is consumed in about eight United States, Argentina, and Eussia supply thewheat and flour; Eussia supplies the rye. The sugar-beet is by far the most important export crop,and Germany produces yearly about one million, eighthundred thousand tons, -or nearly as much as Austria- GEJtittASY SCANDINiVIAN COFNTEIES. SCMIE OF STATUTE MILES. 7// V I™. Longitude liaat 1 & from Greenwlcb EITKOPE—GREAT BPaTAIN AND GERMANY 305 Hungary and France combined. This industry is encour-aged by a bounty paid on all sugar exported.* A consid-erable amount of raw beet-sugar is sold to the refineries ofthe United States; Great Britain also is a heavy home consumption is relatively small, being aboutone-third per capita that of the United States. Silesia, theKhine Valley, and the lowlands of the Hartz Mountainsare the most important centres of the sugar industry. Germany is rich in Zinc occurs in abun-dance, and the mines of Silesia furnish the worlds chiefsupply. Most of the lithographic stone in use is obtainedin Bavaria. Copper and silver are mined in the Erz andHartz Mountains. During the sixteenth century the minesof the latter region brought the states then forming Ger-many into commercial prominence and thereby divertedthe trad
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