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Show IFTRODDCTIOH Upon reading authorities America, of the on one is of history certain to be This acts. (elso larged Eor::este2_d .Act Act) ad s te ad these , the acre2_ge arid a t-:e as then judGed entry i.sf'ac t or-y return ;Jest.1 Sirnil2I'ly, Prescott ebb's residency reQuirement the Gr2.zing with the on for the consensus w i, th the En- Dome- Dry Farming Stock 2'-:alslng Eome::omes-cead Act) of :Je- in his brief discussion of still was Lande the in twentieth-century so of expe c'ta't.i.ons on leading kpr2_ctical, observing Everett witticism the as and 8S fs_llen far short allotted per s at known the disposition several particularly Benj2I:lin :-:ibbe]_"'cl, acts, have "they for 1916. t"iO :nown land impressed 1909, February, (also Act ceribe r of is monographs by public dis2.pprobation surrounding home s te ad i.ng ste various the ' be cau se Dick, the insufficient to lying within that provide semi the paraphrasing \':alter reduction in 1912 o the 2n1arged Homestead Act, opined a This act LaruendI!:.enV seemed to grov; out of the belief that the chc.racter of the rems_ining land was such that the aver-age fwily could not hold Since it \'I2.S thollght the out for five years. wou l.d be r-e ached before the on of s tar-va't.i -point it was cu Ira i.na't i.on of the recmired reSiCCY1Ce , a re2listic as we L'l 2.8 2. hunan.i t ar-Lan neasur'e to te three to shorter: A further years. period ende2.vor to relieve 1:V.P..8.Yl suffering allowed 13en.j2.min Policies (new n Yorl:: , A istor" of the ?tfblic kmd Lacmd.Ll an Corcpany 1924) p 481. Hibbard, '::he , , |