Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-02-16

on farms. The work of these societies
compliments the two Jewish agri-
cultural schools, the Baron de Hirsch
national farm school at Doylestown,
Pa. The federation represents dis,
trictS in which Jewish farmers are
active and the delegates met during
the progress of the fair to discuss
matters of mutual interest. The
propaganda of the advocates of farm
ing for Jews has also been carried
on at the fair and lectures for farm
ers and other visitors who might be
interested, were a daily feature.
The principal matter discussed was
the establishment of a central market
in New York which would serve two
purposes. To give the farmers a
ready outlet for their produce, and to
supply the East side, if the market
could find place there, with many
fresh fruits and vegetables of which
it knows now only by the decayed
specimens of undoubtful antiquity
offered for sale on neighborhood
carts.
BY far the most striking features
of the exhibit were the people who
accompanied it. The difference in
personality between those on the
sidewalk and those in the exhibition
room was so vivid that it was start
ling. Rosy cheeks and quiet temper
aments for the girls in place of the
excited or anemically depressed,
tired faces of the neighborhood girls.
Broad shoulders and tanned faces for
the men, athletic figures for the boys,
and vigorous, energetic movements
characterized all one saw in the
gymnasium or on the roof of the al
lance. The farmers and their sons
and daughters seem to find good COM
pany in all outdoors. They seem
we'll pleased with being free from
city streets. And for their intellects,
the problems of modern agriculture
offer food enough. IT is true that
many more of the students from the
agricultural schools get into scientific
farming and dairying than buy farms
of their own. Why should they not?
This is the tendency of the times. Is
there any reason why boys should
remain clerks at $40 a week in the
small retail stores, when they can be
$15-a-week cogs in the big wheels of
organized industry?
The schools at Woodbine and
Doylestown had effective exhibits at
the fair. Woodbine's was more live
because students were on hand to
demonstrate its features. Bee cul-
ture as explained by the students
and illustrated by one of their hives,
attracted the largest audiences. And
the people about the exhibit talked
with enthusiasm of their homes in
the country. The younger generation
is very evidently held to the farm by
its interest in the problems of mod
ern agriculture. The children read
the papers and magazines published
in English for the farmer, and trans
late for the parents SO that the
guidance offered is effective. The
Jewish agricultural and industrial aid
society publishes farm journal in
Yiddish edited by Prof. Pincus of the
Woodbine school, graduate of the
farm colonies in New Jersey-Norma
Rosenhain and others of this group
have prize gardens and some speci-
mems of their produce were exhibited.
The fair was extraordinary III
showing the working of the leaven of
the idea preached assiduously by the
leaders of American Jews who advo-
cate return to the soil. The Jew
is returning. In numbers the farm
ers are not yet imposing, and failures
and successes have been proper
toned as they undoubtedly are in
other occupations. But the immigrant
Jew ~is finding his farm a source of
wonder. too. In this country he NAV
own land and what he produces is his
own. Not only may he own the land
but the government official who is
his enemy in Russia is here his