Excerpt from Improving Low Incomes on Tobacco Farms, Caswell County, North Carolina Caswell County lies in the Northern Piedmont Plateau, next to the Virginia State line. It is a part Of North Carolina type-of-farming Area 6, in which the major cash enterprises are tobacco and small grain. In 1860, the financial standing of the county was considered the best in North Carolina. Today Caswell County is the poorest, With respect to valuation Of real property, of the 30 counties in the Piedmont Region of the State. Two factors are behind this backsliding. The first is the bar between the States, while the second is the tobacco culture. The war math its freeing of slaves and its general disruption of the economy Of the South, caused almost complete disorganization of the agriculture of the county. Many plantations were abandoned for lack of labor and other factors of production. 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.