Farmworkers in Rural America, 1971-1972, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor.... |
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Page 1176 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 1358 - The Legislature shall protect by law, from forced sale, a certain portion of the homestead and other property of all heads of families.
Page 1360 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Page 1173 - Such contract or contracts with irrigation districts hereinbefore referred to shall further provide that all irrigable land held in private ownership by any one owner in excess of one hundred and sixty irrigable acres shall be appraised in a manner to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and the sale prices thereof fixed by the Secretary on the basis of its actual bona fide value at the date of appraisal without reference to the proposed construction of the irrigation works; and...
Page 1173 - Interior; and that until onehalf the construction charges against said lands shall have been fully paid no sale of any such lands shull carry the right to receive water...
Page 730 - I would like to submit my full statement for the record and provide an abbreviated set of oral remarks.
Page 1360 - To annul this privilege and, instead of an aristocracy of wealth of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which Nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.
Page 1358 - Lands belonging to this State, which are suitable for cultivation, shall be granted only to actual settlers, and in quantities not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres to each settler, under such conditions as shall be prescribed by law.
Page 1079 - Using a modern feeding system for broilers, one man can take care of 60,000 to 75,000 chickens. One man in a modern feedlot can now take care of 5,000 head of cattle. One man, with a mechanized system, can operate a dairy enterprise of 50 to 60 milk cows. Agriculture, in short, does an amazingly efficient job of producing food.-'Yes, if we measure efficiency by output per farm worker, then we must agree with Secretary Hardin...
Page 1261 - ... and inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns of the...