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dition that the states should guarantee reclamation. 

 Under this, 1,168,276 acres have been patented up 

 to this writing. 



Through all of these and other operations, 

 homesteading steadily progressed. This, which is 

 the real story of the great distribution and its accom- 

 panying nation-building, is far more eloquently told 

 by the accompanying table than would be possible in 

 any other way. 



HOMESTEAD ENTRIES FROM PASSAGE OF HOMESTEAD ACT 

 TO JUNE 30, 1927 



"Agricultural entry," says United States Geo- 

 logical Survey Bulletin 537, "may not be made on 



