Forestry and Homecrafts at the General Federation
Madame president and delegates at St Paul, 1906 discuss forest preservation and home crafts. Speaker urges saving California redwoods and creating forest reserves in the White Mountains and Appalachians, ties motherhood and home life to national reform, opposes joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, promotes the Homecroft movement with a garden home for every family.
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Mills
California
National Irrigation Movement
White Mountains
Appalachian Range
Christ
Rome
Carthage
Mediterranean
Palmyra
Asia
Maxwell’s
Homemaker Magazine
Fisher Building
Chicago
Homecroft Movement Urges Nation to Fund Irrigation and Land Reforms
The manifesto calls Congress to fund irrigation works as a loan repaid from reclaimed lands and urges land policy reforms to favor actual settlers. It promotes Homecrofts, forest conservation, and federal land management to curb urban drift and ensure education, employment, and homes on the land. It outlines a platform emphasizing land tax policies, rural settlement, tax exemptions for improvements, river and flood control, and unified water rights tied to land ownership. It also details the first Homecrofter guild in Watertown Massachusetts and calls for nationwide adoption of these principles.
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Secretary of the Interior
Congress
General Treasury
Columbia
Sacramento
Colorado
Rio Grande
Missouri
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Forestry and Homecrofts
George I. Maxwell
THE
Home Crofters Guild OF the Talisman
General Federation of Women's Clubs
St. Paul, Minn
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachiian
White Mountain
New England
Panama Canal
Arizona
New Mexico
Pennsylvania
Ossa
Pellon
Mother Earth
Eden
Homecroft Movement
Iomecrofters
Homecrofters
George H. Maxwell
Brotherhood OF Man Charity
United States
Main Street
Watertown
Mass
Cay
Republic
Jenry HN
Grady
Milous
George Lt. Maxwell
Honemakers
Pwice
Public Lands Commission
Roosevelt
Homecrofts
National Irrigation Association
Brotherhood of Man
Charity
Nippon
Homecroft
Massachusetts
Nomecrofters
Wamecrofters
Talisman
Malin St
Opportunity Homegrafts
Ife
New Zealand
Lana
Charles F. Dole
Theodore C. Williams
Hackley School
New York
San Francisco
London Spectator
Bradford
England
Oua
Maxwell
Homemaker
Csiles
Crockett
Texas
HoMs
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