matter should be as widely known as possible, and facilities for
training should be extended to give preparation for other suitable
trades.

Most of all, it is desirable that as many men as possible should be
trained for agricultural and horticultural work, and should have the
opportunity of healthy outdoor employment. To do such work efficiently,
training for those who have not been brought up to it is, of course,
necessary. This training may be given on farms acquired for the purpose
either by some public authority or by individuals or by philanthropic
associations. Work of the kind has been already started, and should be
extended as fast as any demand for such training is found to exist.
There is, unfortunately, reason to believe that the number of discharged
men able to take up work on the land and desirous of doing so will not
be very large.

In connection with the permanent employment of these disabled men,
schemes have been set on foot which hold out the most attractive
prospects as affording healthier conditions, brighter and pleasanter
homes, and as enabling useful production to go on with efficiency under
conditions in which the life of the worker may be passed in
surroundings which will give some satisfaction to the aesthetic sense.
These schemes include the formation of (i) industrial villages in the
neighbourhood of towns, of which the one at Lancaster, referred to in
the next chapter (p. 145), may be taken as a type, and (ii) new villages
established, or old villages extended in places which are easily
accessible, and not too remote from facilities for the education of
children and from the attractions of a town. In these villages organised
cultivation will be carried on.