The land law system which was designed to meet the needs of the fertile and well-watered regions of the Middle West has largely broken down when applied to the dryer regions of the Great Plains, the mountains, and much of the Pacific slope, where a farm of 160 acres is inadequate for self-support.
Roosevelt critiques the inadequacy of the land law system for the dryer regions of the U.S., emphasizing the need for a more suitable approach to land management.
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