SOLDIERS ON THE LAND

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 8

SOLDIERS ON THE LAND

. DIFFICULTIES OF SETTLEMENT. A. resident of Duncdin who spent theliolidny season in tho vicinity of tho Boiiraoro settlement for returned soldiers states (according to a southern paper) that some of the men nro having a protly hard time in making ends nicer, and have to take oa small contracting work, otc, to enablo them to obtain a littlo extra revenue. Tho visitor from Diincdin says that, from what he could gather from local farmers, tbe settleinont was badly laid out in the first place, and that the allotments were not bis enough, speaking generally, to enable tho soldier farmers to have a fair chance of making a comfortable living. While tho soldiers have been given flat land in their allotments they have not had sufficient hill country included, and tho result is that when enow falls it■• lies oil tho Hats nnd tho sheep have a bad time. If somo hill country had been given with the flat country the sheep would have had a better chance of making their way to any sunny faces. Tho shearing is verybackward, and the position is rendered more acule by tho fact that the farmers in that locality prefer blade-shearing to machine cutting, as experience has shown that the machine takes the wool off too close, and that many sheep die if a cold snap follows.