Timber Culture Act

Timber Culture Act

The Timber Culture Act was a follow-up act to the Homestead Act. The Timber Culture Act was passed by Congress in 1873. The act allowed homesteaders to get another 160 acres of land if they planted trees on one-fourth of the land, because the land was "almost one entire plain of grass, which is and ever must be useless to culivating man." (qtd. in "Daily Life on the 19th Century American Frontier" by Mary Ellen Jones)


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