1. A Comparison Between Dairying in Southeastern Wisconsin-Northeastern Illinois and Southwestern Puerto Rico.
- Author
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Doerr, Arthur H.
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DAIRY industry , *DAIRY products industry , *FOOD industry - Abstract
The article compares dairying in southwestern Puerto Rico with dairying in southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. Southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois is a gently rolling area, which was shaped largely by advancing and retreating lobes of the Wisconsin ice sheet. Irregular deposits of drift resulted in drumlins, moraines, and swamps. Soils which have developed on deposited glacial drift vary considerably in fertility depending on the physical and chemical characteristics of the drift and the degree to which it has weathered. The vegetation and soils are indicators of climatic type, since they have developed in partial response to it. Southwestern Puerto Rico is divided into three distinct physical sub-divisions. The flat floored, low lying Lajas Valley occupies approximately the northern one-half of the area. South of the Lajas Valley, a zone of hills forms a low discontinuous range, which reaches a maximum elevation of 800 feet, but which has an average elevation of about 500 feet. The land south of the southern hills is occupied by the gently undulating south coastal plain. Dairying in southeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois developed in response to a number of physical and cultural factors. From a physical standpoint the approach to dairying was probably negative rather than positive.
- Published
- 1952