Still believing that there could not be too many farms or too many farmers. agriculture was not given time to recover from the effects of free land distribution before the Federal Government began a program of reclamation of waste lands by irrigation. which is still bringing about the addition of lands at public expense to our tillable area. Following the same policies as the Federal Government. the States have entered into landsettlement activities of a similar nature. Many States have immigration departments for the purpose of encouraging the movement of settlers to new and cutover lands. The Federal and State activities have in turn been supplemented by the work of chambers of commerce. bankers. realestate operators. and other private agencies interested in the development of particular regions. Furthermore. the work of our experiment stations and of our United States Department of Agriculture was concerned with problems of production.
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