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aptitude, must go to the parts of the Empire where there 

 is suitable land, where the cost of equipment is low and 

 where the Government make generous arrangements for 

 the advance of necessary working capital to the settler. 



At home the cost of house, farm buildings, etc., 

 necessary for a 30-50-acre holding is, at present, about 

 ^(^3000 ; in Australia or New Zealand, for instance, a nice 

 cottage can still be built for about £'^'^0, and owing to the 

 climate little is required in the way of buildings. 



Practically all the Dominion Governments are far 

 more generous than the Home Government in regard to 

 loans to smallholders ; but here again the money shortage 

 is making itself felt, and the Oversea Governments are 

 having to restrict their operations. 



The type of man I am discussing now is just the 

 one so much needed in our Dominions ; and he will be 

 doing a great Imperial service by helping to people and 

 to make productive the unoccupied lands of the Empire.' 



THE POULTRY F.\RM 



There are so many men who fancy that they would 

 like to run a small poultry farm and, worse still, so many 

 who have tried it and failed, that I must put in a word of 

 warning. 



The high prices for poultry and eggs which ruled 

 during the war gave a great fillip to poultry farming, 

 and undoubtedly many people have done well in this 

 branch of " live stock." 



But the fact remains that, with normal prices, very few 

 men can succeed in making a living out of a poultry farm. 



• For information in regard to settlement in the Dominions, 

 application should be made to the Oversea Settlement Committee, 

 6, St. James Square, SAV. i. 



