Show worthless swamp con converted averted into productive Product ivo farm land not many years ago much of the southeastern part of missouri was a great wooded swamp swamp east it was called today it resembles yazoo valley ol of mississippi with some of the richest so soil il 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 rom the boll weevil discovered the incredible richness of 0 Swamp east where in places the alluvial muck had been as much as feet thick more than two million acres of Swamp east today are drained by great ditches what was once worth less swamp land Is now nov worth up to 1 1000 an acrel acre it produces almost twice as much cotton to the acre as any other non ir irrigated land I 1 known today it has acres in cotton which although only two per cent ol of MIssour Mis souris ls farm land makes cotton the states leading cash crop one of the largest developments consisting of 0 more than 1000 miles of ditches which drain acres is the little river drainage district built by private enterprise without a penny of federal or slate money |