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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (570)	3/1/2017 12:09:55 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 2202

Break up agriplantations into 160 acre farms, with actual farmers living them? . ... the 1902 Reclamation Act. Two of the most controversial parts of the law require that no one person can own more than 160 acres (320 Tor husband and wife) of land receiving water from a federal irrigation project and that the owner must live within 50 miles of the land.The roots of these requirements are in the 1862 Homestead Act, which limited tracts to 160 acres per farm and required residency in the "neighborhood" of the land. The original objectives of the Reclamation Law, although this is subjected to some debate, were to develop irrigated agriculture in the west and establish a wide distribution of small, moderate size farms. digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu In '82, Raygun made the limit 960 acres. usbr.gov