Advanced Geography . of the United States andthe steppes of Russia have wheat andcattle to spare. New England has skilled workmen and greatmills for cloth-making. No cotton grows in thatregion, but enough is produced on the Southernplains to supply all the mills in our own country, and many inGreat Britain besides. The buying and selling, or the exchange of goods, iscalled trade. Trade on a large scale may be called com-merce. Domestic commerce is that carried onbetween various parts of one country. Foreign ^commerce is that carried on between onecountry and another. Which of the following are
Advanced Geography . of the United States andthe steppes of Russia have wheat andcattle to spare. New England has skilled workmen and greatmills for cloth-making. No cotton grows in thatregion, but enough is produced on the Southernplains to supply all the mills in our own country, and many inGreat Britain besides. The buying and selling, or the exchange of goods, iscalled trade. Trade on a large scale may be called com-merce. Domestic commerce is that carried onbetween various parts of one country. Foreign ^commerce is that carried on between onecountry and another. Which of the following are domestictrade and which are foreign? — Bostonsells boots and shoes to the people ofTexas. Brazil sends rubber to New sends beef to nearly all parts ofour country and to Europe. Erance ex-ports laces to the United States. Switzer-land imports raw silk from Italy. Great Britain leads in foreigncommerce. Germany ranks secondFrance third; the United States principal exports are cotton from the. are no wagon roads, no canals, no rivers, no railroads, no arms ofthe sea, — none of the greater highways of trade. Aged people can recall the time when there was not a railroadnor a steamship in the world. In those days the large rivers intrading countries were alive with boats, while sailing vessels onthe oceans and inland seas went freighted from port toport. Railroads are now used more than river boats,and most of the freight which goes by water iscarried by steamers. The rivers which are of greatestuse as routes of trade are thosewhich are deep and slow, and whichflow through the most productive Thus the Mississippi river system formsa great highway of trade for the stateswhich are reached by its navigable This river system branches among the grain-Cx fields, the forests, the grazing lands and the coalfields of the upper Mississippi valley, and amongthe cotton and sugar plantations of the South. Im-mense quantities of the products of these regions
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