The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-19
|eUs Desert
SWeat Shops
for Farming
Race Winning Success in
Agriculture Guided by Eff
. ficient Organization.
ny GRATTNN McCAFFERTY.

lur.nG advertisement in his favorite
newspaper. invests his savings in one
OF the abandoned" farms about which
he has read so much. slaves for a
season or two. loses his money and
returns disgustedly to the city, cursing
fate and every body who ever tod him
that farming was an easy way to
carr n living.
When Isaac Silvcrstein Is ready to
leave his tenement in the city and
turn farmer he goes to the h~cadquar-
tors Of a society. has an expert pur-
chase his farm. obtains a loan to
finance his venture IL he needs II.
learns the best farming methods and
in a few years is prosperous. He
comes back to the city only to sci. his
produce.
Success to Isaac Silverstein means
organization, cooperation and business
methods. He is a pioneer leading his
race from the crowded tenemcnts and
sweatshops of American cites to the
farm. The Jews are beginning In a
new land to till the soil as they did
thousands Of years ago and are put
ting into their task all the energy,
craft and training that have made
them the foremost business race OF
the word.
Isaac SilverSteln was born in Rus
eia and came to America when 10
years old. lie lived IN a crowded New
York tenement. His health began TO
rail after his marriage and he became
a ped.er To get away from the con-
hnement of the East Side sweatshop
Meanwhile he and Roscy had heard
n call of the farm. They wanted to
leave the crowded city and And health
and happiness in the country. They
saved dollar by dollar and ten years
after their marriage had a little more
than $1,000. Then they went TO the
headquarters Of the Jewish Agrlcul-
tural and Industrial Aid Society.
Through the aid of this society
Isaac Sllverstein and his wife were
soon beginning life anew N a farm
In New Jersey. The $1,000 was paid
on the purchase price Of the farm and
Q FIRST mortgage covered the ba ance.
The society on second mortgage lent
Isaac enough for equipment and run.
ming expenses.
isaac SlVerStcin was reasonable
successful from the start. more so ner.
maps than other city bred man would
nave been on a farm. for the socle,y's
experts aided HIM. advising him how
MS farm should he conducted and
teaching him the hes, methods urtl
ne was able 10 conduct the farm HIM
se4l' re was he To- meet his in
terest ana principal payments rcgu-
larry n save a little for improves
ment work. He became a subscriber
10 the JcTish Farmer. the so~cie,v.s
magazine. and found In II much helm.
ful Information. lie attended lectures
arranged by the soc ETY. for tba farm-
ing communities and Their. learned
.hnnE th'hEs about his new work. He
became n stakeholder in one of the %.
operative credit unions f~ostcred by the
sciety, and twice when he needed
small loans obtained them from his
union without d ~ficulty.
Now ten years after moving from
the tenement, Isaac SilvcrSteln nvns
nrst class truck farm near a good mar
ket in Philadelphia. His eldest, SON 10
a radua OF the jewish Agricultural
college of Woodb.ne, y. J. Years ,go
ne ceased To W rry about his health
'or the farm work soon ob]lltcratod rho
marks or the sW shop ana the tene-
'neht' Tie Is prosperous and happv.
ana al because he got the right kind
OF start. Prrhah Y John Smith voud
nave done as well under like circum.
stances.
Isaac Silverstein is one Of thousands
OF Jews moving from the DIVIDE ton.
ements' the sweatshops. the pedler's
wagon and leaving the CITY for ,ba
farm. Backed by a strong organization
the Jewish farmer has already made
MS mark in American agricultural de-
velopmcnt.
In twenty-scvcn States ana Canada
are 5000 farms owned by Jews. win
a total population Of probably 1So0o
All or the farms are prosperous. and
most of them run by men who a few
years ago were living in
Je"lSh farmers own farms and farm
property valued at $33. 600 600 There
are hundreds OF Jews working as farm
Iaborers in various States gathering
experience for the day when they will
nave farms Of their own. In the agri-
cultural colleges Of the different States
are ever increasing numbers of Jewish
students. most of them city born and
some OF them the sons of men who left
the tenements but a few years before
In the cities themselves are numbers
OF Jews saving under the advice of the
society and looking forward t. the dav
when they too Will leave the city and
start life anew on farms. Such jq the
result of a few wears work Of the
eWish Agricultural and Industrial AID
Society.
The man who undertakes tho man
agement Of IA farm under the ausplces
or the society is reasonably sure of
success, for the society has its staff OF
experts, who have studied farming
from every angle, 1'ncy know, Almost
before a man goes on a farm, what
problems he will meet ANA have the
machinery ready 70 solve these prob
lens for him, The machinery lnclurcy
farm loans, rural credit associations.
n farm labor bureau, educational wrrk.
including the activities of the agricul-
tural school and the lecture bureaus,
and above all cooperation among the
farmers themselves,
This rush Of the Jews from the ten
ements to the farm Is not nm artificial
movement fostcred by wei meaning
philanthropists, There is no hack to
the 7arm' campaign behind II, 1t is
not even n charitable movement. Jews
are turning farmers because tho land
eaah them, and the society merely