Geography Ch 11

The blending of western plains dry land in conjuction with the eastern plains more rainy and more humid air during he growing season

• Rainfall, length of growing season, relief, and
• soils allows certain kinds of farming to excel.

Its where the settlers came from

The growing of plants, especially vegetables, in water containing essential mineral nutrients rather than in soil.

The type of climate found in the interior of the major continents in the middle, or temperate, latitudes. Characterized by a great seasonal variation in temperatures, four distinct seasons, and a relatively small annual precipitation.

• Jan 25 degree's F
• July 76 degree's F

a nearly level land area that was formed as a lake bed

an area possessing surface topagraphy resulting from the underground solution of subsurface limestone or dolomite

Alfisols form in semiarid to humid areas, typically under a hardwood forest cover.

mollisols--Mollisols form in semi-arid to semi-humid areas, typically under a grassland

Porkopolis

agricultural land that is plowed or tilled but left unseeded during a growing season. Fallowing is usually done to conserve moisture

fodder (livestock feed) prepared by storing and fermenting green forage plants in a silo

a system of land survey that defines land parcels according to visible natural landscape features and distance. The resultant field pattern is usually very irregular in shape

The rectangular system of land subdivision of much of the agriculturally settled United states west of the appalachians: established by the Land Ordinance of 1785

• Market demand for soybeans remained greater than supply. It was described as the future miracle food.
• It also reconditioned the soil in which added more nitrogen to it.

a plant, such as the soybean, that bears nitrogen fixing bacteria on its roots and thereby increases soil nitrogen content.

Cattle and hogs

• family farming is on the decline and banks are not too friendly to loaning to farmers like they used to.
• Some farmers rent or lease additional land rather than purchase it.
• Some farmers are full tenants, choosing to work for a land owner through different agreements.
• went from raising wheat to hogs and cattle. They started using new technology like the reaper (1831) and the steel plow (1837).

Farm size has shifted from smaller to bigger because of technology.

the land north of the Ohio River and west of Pennsylvania.