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.