Need for a Plan 



methods of cultivation and neglected 

 the development of intensive methods, 

 so that the placing of ex-service men 

 on small areas of land, where they will 

 be taught to practise these intensive 

 methods, will be a distinct gain to the 

 nation. 

 (e) If the men who have been fighting for 

 our safety want to settle down to a life 

 in the country rather than in the town, it 

 is our bounden duty to enable them to 

 do so, and to provide for them the most 

 nearly perfect conditions of settlement. 

 It will be necessary to have a completely 

 thought-out plan of land settlement for ex- 

 service men ready to put into operation the 

 moment the need arises. If we wait until 

 the need is present, and then set out to 

 devise the system, the result will be un- 

 satisfactory. Although the proper settle- 

 ment of ex-service men will be a new type 

 of work in England, for never before has 

 any serious attempt been made to place men 

 unskilled in agriculture upon the land, and 

 although to a certain extent this settlement 

 must be treated as a problem by itself, still 



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