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APPOINTMENTS FOR APRIL. 
TUESDAY, SRM x 
Royal Hort. Soc. 
Show. уыл һу 
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WEDNESDAY, PRIL 9— 
Wargrave Gard. Soc, meet. 
Coms. Meet.: 
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Bath Gard. Soc. FA 
THURSDAY, APRIL 
Manchester and Ж, of England Orchid Pudet 
Soc. Com. meet. 
meet. 
FRIDAY, APRIL 18— 
Good Friday. 
MONDAY, APRIL 21— 
Bank Holiday. 
2 INDE APRIL 23— 
Wargrave Gard. Soc. meet. 
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AVERAGE MEAN ТЕМ! the ensuing week 
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ACTUAL TEMPERA 
Gardeners’ Chronicle Office, 41, Wellington Str 
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The Land Settlement 
Land and Land Acquisition 
‘Settlement Bills, which wi e 
- under the consideration 
of Parliament in the immediate future, 
describe the machinery whereby it is pro- 
posed to effect the long- promised settle- 
МеН of ех-ѕегуісе men on the land. The 
latter: Bill makes provision 
dier acquisition. oi y nd enab 
d j 
a та olt. fact that the present time pre 
e to 
sents peculiar difficulties which 
be edis en if land settlement is РА be 
ассо: has increased in 
рне, Кан]. building: and all kinds of 
t e, or more t 
Es ds рор 
t л shou 
Tu sibility for "iat may be called the differ- 
t of ed, uoa 
ence in 
in pre- 
ee у cost 
resent tim 
d e d in the Land Settlement Bill, 
accordance with the provisions 
iod of seven years mak m. 
diferan between. 
ые fa ed in a wage-earn 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
trade— the object bein iere 
labourers and others ерда a 
сс 
the land an 
poultr i. 
In this connectio on it is of i 
1 
—som vincis like 75 yet ть of ie me 
mus 
рсе cal experience and of so 
o encourage inexperienced men 
without training to cultivate a irae 
she be to court disaster both for the 
n and for the scheme.) Given adequate 
experience the possession of insufficient 
apital will not bar a man from a hold- 
ing, parla he maj have to m oh in a 
mall way, for the he Bi 
perience, wi derstand that the Board 
of Agriculture proposes to establish short 
courses of training sufficient to enabl Vie 
men who SANE: Loge W: 
earners on far arket garden 
There, x well: [m in ithe part be hold- 
ings w will be e to obtain, 
they 
they will gain the pr: ЧЫГ ехрег1епсе 
rei should apup them later on for a 
wee time holdin 
end it is pro d also to provide 
for i i bee way, Aii by the estab- 
lishment of settlements, of which already 
four have been fou nded. land settle- 
ent will be of one of two types. In 
on = case the perme ivi work for wages 
enabled to ding the size 
of which "il ET be determined by 
the amount Ф “Чы ү opis at their 
apoa of time, a 
grou an оРаЕ ОНАН will be 
establ ke occa the cen sane farm, and 
the holder. be able, ording 
the size о. dus bolting и М to бед 
all his time cultivation or to 
меа and method go ` 
So fa 
it is difficult to see how the scheme of 
Land S 
E. 
re 
st be a slow process and that 
to- 
sati 
13 18 fi, re of course, that settlement 
both . 
[ Арап, 5, 1919, 
waiting and waiting lists are 
Deis 
long. Good 
tg 
in obtaining land, and probably yet more 
delay in providing housing and equip- 
ment. Yet, if those W holdings 
priority, other 
the consideration of the difficulties which | 
must be overcome if the small holdings, 
чет established, ате to prove remuner- 
to those who cultivate them. T 
cdd exist, and must faced, 
within the knowledge of the cultivators 
but a discussion of these pais may 
be left to sa fe occasion 
' British Ga шак Association.—The Annual 
General Conference of the British eps 
Association will be. held at Birmingh Mon- 
day, May 12. 
beu pot 
mnn. 
Ме cGregor, for many years Assistant Superin 
dent at Richmond. ` 
of culture and — 
Rupe uae. of the Board Agricul 26, in 
ssible 
ment policy in уетше аит 
dh 
this proposal 
Bera? our’: by Bir V к Жока 
таа of Agriculture 
Jong pros а negative 
ger | олар Аде | of Parliament. 
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