Land Settlement for Ex-Service Men 



(d) While there will be want of employ- 

 ment probably in many towns, agricul- 

 tural land, if properly handled, can 

 employ thousands more cultivators than 

 it does to-day. Fifty years ago one 

 million more men than at present found 

 an occupation on the soil. It is some- 

 times said that if labour - saving 

 machinery were used to the full, less 

 and not more men would be employed 

 on the land. But this will not be the 

 result if, at the same time, cultivation 

 is made more intensive. In Denmark 

 labour-saving machinery is used to a 

 much greater extent than here, and yet 

 about twice as many men are employed 

 per lOO acres. 



(c) If the health and physical standard of 

 the nation is to be maintained, we must 

 see to it that the rural population suffers 

 no further decline, but rather that it is 

 built up and increased. 



(d) The soil of the United Kingdom is 

 far from producing the amount of food 

 it is potentially capable of producing. 

 Too long have we practised extensive 



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