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Show PRESIDENT TAFT SIGNS NEW HOMESTEAD BILL Last Tuesday President Taft sicr. rj the three-year homestead bill, per:n:f-ing per:n:f-ing entries on public lands to prove on claims in three instead of five e;.:, : allowing five month's absence from a j claim each year and reducingthe acro- age to be cultivated on large 'claims from 80 to 40 acres. The pen used was given to Rep. Taylor Tay-lor of Colorado. The bill is designed to so liberalize the homestead laws a; to check the immigration of Ame'-icin farmers to Canada. Senator Borah was one of its supporters. |