The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-09-30
1T WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE,
Some of the Provisions Of the Dry
@s Farm Act

ed in pubic land matters are the
instructions just issued by the Sec
rotary of the interior for guidance
in the administration OF the act Of
congress approved June II, 1910,
enlarged homestead, familiarly
known in the west as the dry farm
act.
The instructions include a special
feature in that they state that lands
have to be designated by the secre-
tary OF the interior, and this will
take some time. III
The Instructions to registers and
receivers Of United States land OH
ces In Idaho are In part as follows:
The FIRST section Of the act, pro-
yides for the making Of homestead
entry for an area Uof 800 acres, or
less OF arid, 'non4irrigible public land
in the State of Idaho.
The terms arid or ''non-ir-
rigible" as used In this act, are
construed to mean land which, as
rule, lacks sufficient rainfall to
produce agricultural crops without
the necessity Of restoring to un-
usual methods of cultivation, such
as the system commonly known as
dry farming and for which there
IL no known source of water supply
from which such land may be sue
cessfully irrigated at reasonable
cost.
Therefore lands containing mer-
charitable timber, mineral lands, and
lands within a reclamation project,
or lands which may be irrigated at
reasonable cost from any known
source of water supply, may not be
entered under this act Minor por-
tions of legal subdivision suscept-
ible OF irrigation from natural sour
ces, as, for instance. a spring, will
not exclude such subdivision from
entry under this act, provided, how
ever, that no one entry shall embrace
in theaggregation more than 40 acres
of such irrigible lands.
Lands entered under this act must
be in reasonably compact form,
and in no event exceed one and one
half mile in length.
The act provides that the fees
shall be the same as those now re-
quired to be paid under the home
stead laws; therefore, while the fees
may not in any one case exceed the
maximum fee of SO required under
the general homestead law, the COM
missions will be determined by the |
area of land embraced in the entry |
The affidavit of applicant as to the
character of the lands must be cor
roborated by two witnesses. II is
not necessary that such witnesses be
acquainted with the applicant, and
i they are not SO acquainted their
afidavit should be modified accord
ngiy.
Section 80 of the act provides that
my homestead entryman of lands of
he character described in the first
!nal proof has not been made, may
inter such other lands, subject to
he provisions of this act. contiguous
o the former entry, which shall net
ogether with the lands embraced in
he original entry, exceed 32c acres
nd that residence upon and cultiva- /
ion Of the original entry shall be 8
'ccpted as equivalent to residence
pom and cultivation c. the addition. ,
entry. =
Final proofs must be made as in
rdinary homestead cases, and in
sction of the act, upon which entry r
EDITION to the showing required II
ordinary homestead entrymen it +,
lust be shown that at least one Z
9Th of the area embraced in each +,
airy has been continuously cultivat- q
to agricultural crops other than h
alive grasses, beginning with the e
cond year Of the entry and that at +,
asst one-fourth of the area embrac- o,
In the entry has been continuously N
ltivated to agricultural crops other q,
an native grasses, beginning with !,
g third year of the entry and con- ca
luing to date Of final proof.
Proof must be made on the origi- ge
! entry within the statutory per- IN
Of seven years from the date of rs
entry; and IL 1t cannot be shown o.
that time that the cultivation has of
en- such as to satisfy the require nm
,nts Of the act as to, both entries 1t nj,
n be necessary to submit supple
'ntal proof on the additional entry co,
the proper time. But proof should M,
made at the time to cover both en- ID
% in all cases where the residence II
cultivation are such as to meet +
requirements of the act. mr.,
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