---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 439"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "439"
heading: "Cultivation requirement as to entrymen"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/439"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter VI — Water Right Applications and Land Entries"
---

# §439. Cultivation requirement as to entrymen


The entryman upon lands to be irrigated shall, in addition to compliance with the homestead laws, reclaim at least one-half of the total irrigable area of his entry for agricultural purposes.


## Source credit

(June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 5, 32 Stat. 389.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act

Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.