I MAIN TROOPS ON THEIR M TO COAST . OTTAWA, Quebec, Dec. 3. Arthur Melghen, minister of tho interior, 1ms .' just announced a plan by which, under un-der the Land Settlement for Soldiers act, Canadian soldiers, who are inexperienced inex-perienced in farm work and who contemplate con-template taking up farm lands In the Canadian west, will be trained for the farm at government expense. During the demobilization period, the soldiers will be taught agricultural agricul-tural work on training farms in England. Eng-land. These farms already have been obtained by the Soldiers' Settlement Board and are in limited operation for soldiers stationed in England. The farms will bo organized as schools of instruction in the essentials of farming farm-ing under Canadian conditions. They will provide a three-months Intensive course. The teaching staffs as far as practicable will bo selected from service ser-vice men who formerly were connected connect-ed with agricultural colleges. W. G. Black, commissioner of agricultural Instruction, has prepared an agricultural agricul-tural college course for the soldiors. It is designed to teach the men the everyday operation of a farm rather than scientific agricultural principles. I Inexperienced men, returning direct-1 ly from Europe, will be offered two j plans to qualify as farmers. They .may take a course in an agricultural! college at government expense or may lcom practical work on a farm. Many Canadian farmers have offered to take soldiers upon their farms for instruc-" instruc-" tion, and a considerable number of veterans are completing their year of , probation. The Canadian government also proposes pro-poses to follow up these courses with instructions given to the soldiers after they have taken up their own farms. Under this plan, the new farmers will be taught scientific farming by representatives repre-sentatives of the agricultural department depart-ment or by agricultural college ex-ension ex-ension service.