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Sugar Beets Are a Profitable Crop in the Irrigated Districts. 



The marriage of the entrywoman after making entry will not defeat her right to 

 acquire title if she continues to reside upon the land and otherwise comply with the 

 law. 



A widow, if otherwise qualified, may make a homestead entry notwithstanding the 

 fact that her husband made an entry and notwithstanding she may be at the time 

 claiming the unperfected entry of her deceased husband. 



A person serving in the Army or Navy of United States may make a homestead 

 entry if some member of his family is residing on the lands applied for, and appli- 

 cation and accompanying affidavits may be executed before officer commanding branch 

 of service in which he is engaged. 



A homestead entry may be made by the presentation to the land office of the 

 district in which the desired lands are situated of an application properly prepared 

 on blank forms prescribed for that purpose and sworn to before either the register 

 or receiver, or before a United States commissioner, or a judge, or a clerk of a court 

 of record, in the county in which the land lies, or before any officer of the classes 

 named who resides in the land district and nearest or most accessible to the land, 

 although he may reside outside of the county in which the land is situated. 



Each application to enter and the affidavits accompanying it must recite all the 

 facts necessary to show that the applicant is acquainted with the land; that the 

 land is not, to the applicant's knowledge, either saline or mineral in character; that 

 the applicant possesses all the qualifications of a homestead entryman; that the 

 application is honestly and in good faith made for the purpose of actual settlement 

 and cultivation, and not for the benefit of any other person, persons or corporation; 

 that the applicant will faithfully and honestly endeavor to comply with the re- 

 quirements of the law as to settlement, residence and cultivation necessary to ac- 

 quire title to the land applied for; that the applicant is not acting as the agent of any 



