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Courtesy U. S. Dept. Agr.

FIG. 2. How the Cotton Belt goes to economic Hades. This is not the Alps. It is Georgia, U.S.A. It was good crop land and forest land a few decades ago. It has been a field. It might have yielded crops for ages. Major André, famous traitor in war, was not going to destroy any land; he would merely have changed the law-makers from one group to another.