1 FEBRUARY 1919, Page 3

Forecasts have been published of the Government scheme for settling

soldiers on the land. It is proposed to settle soldiers in three different ways—on small-holdings, in cottages with an acre of land each, and on copartnership farms. Small-holdings can be allotted, to begin with, only to men who already have experience in farming. To put a man without experience on a email farm and expect him to earn his living would be like putting a man into a factory without any raw material whatever and then blaming him for failure. The acre of land with its cottage can, on the other hand, be allotted to a man with no experience. It is not expected that a man will make a living for himeraf and his family out of the produce of the acre. The acre is only a means of supplementing his wages derived from other occupations.