Land Settlement for Ex- Service Men 



It is also widely held to be useless to expect 

 a small holder in this country to make any- 

 thing like so good a living as he could if 

 settled in the New World. This again is 

 erroneous. Even under the present un- 

 satisfactory conditions large numbers of men 

 are making a very good living out of their 

 small holdings. At Fairby in Kent, where 

 the conditions of settlement have been 

 thought out perhaps more carefully than 

 elsewhere in England, there are several 

 settlers from British Columbia who are 

 decidedly of the opinion that if really sound 

 conditions of settlement were created in this 

 country, we should see a reflux from our 

 colonies of cultivators of the soil. There 

 are several examples at Fairby of men with 

 five-acre fruit-and-market-garden holdings, 

 plus poultry and pigs, who are earning a 

 clear income of ;^ioo or ;^i20 a year. 

 Evesham and Wisbech also afford many 

 examples of success, but here the land is 

 exceptionally rich. The following budget is 

 interesting as showing what can be done on 

 poorish, light soil on a 26-acre holding run 

 by a Dane : — 



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