Very true, Charles.  I have often looked at the fields here in SWVA (the
Switzerland of VA) and think of the blood, sweat, tears and endurance that
went into them.  The rocky hillsides of the Appalachian mountains must have
been even more difficult than other areas.  How many of us, today, could and
would do that?
Janice




> can walk to a forested region and consider clearing all of the tress away
in
> a 100 x 440 feet area (one acre) then preparing it for planting using
nothing
> more than hand tools and a mule.
>
> The "new ground" fields I remember were claimed from re-growth following
the
> Civil War. Even to this day the cultivated land in the South is probably
> still less than it was prior to the Civil War.
>
> Charles.
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