Show worthless converted into productive form farm land not many years ago much of 0 the southeastern part of missouri was a great wooded swamp swamp east it was called today it resembles yazoo valley of mississippi with some of the richest soil in the world first came the woodsmen woodsman woods men who cut down the trees in the swampland next came a few settlers who were successful with diversified farming in 1923 southern planters and share croppers running away from 1 the he bon boll weevil discovered the incredible b I 1 e richness of ct Swamp east where in places the alluvial muck had been as much as feet thick more afore than two million acres of Swamp east today are drained by great ditches what was once worthless swamp land Is now worth up to 1000 an acrel it produces almost twice as much cotton to the acre as any other non irrigated land known 0 w today it has acres in c cotton ott on which although only two per cent of massouris Mis souris farm arm land makes cotton the states lea leading j cash crop one of the largest developments consisting of fit more than 1000 miles ot of ditches which drain acres is the little river drainage district built by private enterprise without a penny of federal or state money 1 i |