Land Settlement for Ex-Service Men 



74,000 acres of agricultural land annually. 

 The sales of country property which are 

 registered at Token House Yard average 

 about ;^4,ooo,ooo annually. In general 

 terms, therefore, sufficient land comes into 

 the market in the ordinary course of business 

 to allow of considerable areas being bought 

 for land settlement schemes. 



For settlement of the type advocated here 

 very expensive land should be avoided, 

 and if considerable areas are bought it 

 should be possible to purchase at a price not 

 exceeding ^25 an acre. The idea that so 

 commonly prevails that only very rich land 

 is suitable for small holdings must be 

 combated. Nearly any type of soil, with the 

 exception of heavy clay, is suitable for small 

 farming. It is only necessary to study what 

 has been done in Flanders and parts of 

 Denmark to realize that this is so. In general 

 terms the rich agricultural lands are already 

 pretty closely settled, and future settlement 

 schemes should be so devised and planned 

 as to cause as little disturbance as possible 

 to sitting tenants. Where disturbance is 

 unavoidable, it is the large farmer rather 



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