This plan offers several advantages and some disadvantages, but is believed to be an improvement.
Its advantages are:
All the recruits of the company come in at one season and that the best one.
They come directly to the company on enlistment.
Companies can be larger without increasing strength of army.
The officer enlisting them belongs to the regiment as does his recruiting party and will exercise more care to get only suitable men.
The recruiting will be more widely distributed and as the men go back to their homes knowledge of the service, and trained men in case of war, will be generally distributed.
Fewer men from the slums of the big cities and more from small towns and rural districts.
The men of a regiment coming from one locality, year after year, a friendly feeling for the regiment should be built up and future recruiting assisted and, in case of a great war, every section will have its nucleus of trained men.
Discipline will be improved and desertion diminished. The men will realize that their comrades are from their home section and people at home will know of their misdeeds. Besides it is pleasanter for the men to serve with those they have known before.