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2.10 SUPPLEMENTAL PROCEDURES 6.2 PUBLIC LANDS acres agencies agricultural analyses applicant appraisal approved arable Bureau of Land Bureau of Reclamation CHAP clay Commissioner conducted construction Cont cooperation core costs crop cylinder depth desirable determination development farms ditchbanks drainage electrical resistance entry entryman equipment exchangeable sodium factors farm unit Farmers Home Administration field capacity gypsum homestead hydrometer Illus inches investigations irrigable area Irrigated Land laboratory land classification land development Land Management LAND USE RELEASE LOAM methods moisture equivalent necessary nomographs obtained Office Operation and Maintenance oven-dry Paragraph payment capacity percent permeability project farmers public notice Reclamation projects Regional Director repayment representative farms salinity salts samples sand saturated Section selection settlers sheet sieve Soil and Moisture soil moisture soil structure soil texture specific subclasses Subparagraph tensiometer tion water users weed control program weed survey weight
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Page 11 - In case of the death of any person who would be entitled to a homestead under the provisions of section twenty-three hundred and four, his widow, if unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, then his minor orphan children, by a guardian duly appointed and officially accredited at the Department of the Interior, shall be entitled to all the benefits enumerated in...
Page 9 - The wilting coefficient of a soil is then defined as the moisture content of the soil (expressed as a percentage of the dry weight) at the time when the leaves of the plant growing in that soil first undergo a permanent reduction in their moisture content as the result of a deficiency in the soil-moisture supply.