Word: lande
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...century later the cause of the small farmer is still alive. Curiously enough, the major source of controversy is a law passed six years after the Populist heyday, the Reclamation Act of 1902. This legislation created a federal Reclamation Service to build dams, reservoirs, and canals to irrigate dry lands in 17 western states; today approximately 12 million acres are irrigated by federally stored and transported water. The Act also contained provisions limiting ownership of federally irrigated farm land to 160 acres per family member, and requiring that owners of irrigated land live within 50 miles of their farms...
Last summer, after an eight year long legal battle, a federal appeals court decided that despite a 75 year time lapse, offending landowners would either have to sell their land or do without federal water. In August, Secretary of State Cecil Andrus promptly issued guidelines for the sale of excess lands. Thousands of people turned in their names to a lottery for the newly created farms. And as late as November, Andrus was pressing Congress not to postpone enforcement...
...that reason, we will not appeal the Fresno decision." And during his recent trip to the Rockies Vice President Walter Mondale told the recalcitrant landowners that Carter will ask Congress to approve a sliding scale of acreage limitations based on the type of land and the crops grown on it. However Mondale did not specify to what extent the President favored relaxing the 160-acre per family member restriction...
...optimally efficient farm ranged from 40 to 400 acres, in Kansas, from 180 to 570 acres, and in Montana, from 300 to 540 acres, depending on the type of crop grown. Under the present unenforced regulations a family of four could own 640 acres of fertile, federally irrigated land, more than enough for an efficient and productive farm...
...more cosmonauts were launched into orbit aboard Soyuz 27. They were Air Force Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Dzhanibekov, 35, a pilot who is making his first space flight, and Oleg Makarov, 44, his civilian flight engineer whose two previous Soyuz missions included a flight that was aborted and forced to land in the snows of Siberia near the Chinese border in 1975. After chasing the blinking red and blue lights of Salyut round the earth for a day, the cosmonauts caught up with the space station, clambered through a hatch and embraced their comrades, who quipped...