Farming New Land in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta


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Excerpt from Farming New Land in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta: Problems of Small, Family-Sized Farms in the Backwater Area The D soils produce go.od yie1ds of Corn. During the ea.r1y years of cul tivation, but soon may become poorly adapted to corn production. The adverse properties of D soils do not affect Cotton production so much, because cotton is adapted to a wider range of moisture conditions.' D soils produce good '1 yields of oats, soybeans, and alfalfa.. The high mineral content and, alkaline' -'or only slightly acid reaction make D soils well adapted to leguminous crops. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.










The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta


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This Delta, this Land


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This environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta places the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. It reveals the human aspects of the region's natural history, including land reclamation, slave and sharecropper economies, ethnic and racial perceptions of land ownership and stewardship, and even blues music.




Cotton Kingdom of the New South


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Farm Opportunities in the United States


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