Actually to switch cotton production to Food Production. In fact what everybody realizes especially in the blockade in 1861s were probably not going to get our cotton out of here anyway, we all know about Jefferson Davis king cotton diplomacy and withhold our cotton and force britain and france to come in on our side so they can get our cotton, of of course they start getting conned from india and brazil, and egypt and elsewhere. Thats out of my realm, i dont know. But what will happen during the war itself is that the State Government in order to feed the massive armies and the population, they will call on farmers to actually switch production from cotton to Corn Production and other foodstuffs as well. In fact i fact i saw a very interesting piece of letterhead, i was doing some research and a letter was written in february 19, 1862 and the letter had had cornstalks and it said cotton is no longer king, corn is king now. It was the effort of course to get people to switch from comp