The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-04-16

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reds of others have taken the cor
respondence course prepared for
the Society under the direction OF
the dean of a leading agricultural
college. Shopworkers, furriers,
garment makers, clerks, profess
sional men, merchants-all have
realized their dream of working
their own land.
Today there are Jewish farmers
in nearly every state in the
union. They are dirt farming, "
raising cattle and sheep, chickens,
eggs on a vast scale, engaged in
Horticulture, orcharding, viticul-
ture, producing grain, tobacco,
cotton, sugar beets-in fact in
nearly every branch of agriculture
practiced in the United States.
Individual human achievement
in the many phases Of agriculture
comes to the forefront as one
studies Jewish farm life in Amer
lea. Like the young man from
New York's East Side who started
with a neglected piece of land, a
small shack, SIP in his pocket and
a young bride. Now he is a vege-
table grower of renown and his
fields are selected by the New
York State Experiment Station
for research studies. He has re-
ceived numerous concentrations
for his products-meanwhile par
ticipating actively in civic and re-
ligious affairs of his community.
Or another who became a spe-
cialist in producing seed-raising
1,4OO acres of alfalfa. He served
several terms as president of the
South Dakota Seed Growers Asso-
citation and in 1937-was invited by
President Roosevelt to inspect the
fields of the Presidents farm
which were sown with seed he had
furnished. In 1889 he went as a
member of a group which included
U. S. Senator's, Governors, and
others to the All Soviet Agricul-
tural Fair where he delivered a
radio address reported to have
reached four million listeners.
Two young men started on a
modest farm in Connecticut, and
have built up poultry flock of
1000 chickens, a herd of 40 high
grade cows, large acreages of to-
bacco and potatoes. Another
raises $50 acres of potatoes. A
Jewish farmer in Maine raises
over 500 acres of certified seed
potatoes nd several hundred
acres more of uncertified seed.
Another in New York State grows
onions on a vast scale; a man in
Maryland raises $4,000 albino rats
a year for scientific experimental
purposes; another has hundreds
of acres of apples and peaches; a
farmer in New Jersey produces
high grade bottled milk-and has
perfect record with the health
department. Poultry, eggs, milk,
vegetables, cattle, grain-typical
products raised by typical Jewish
farmers, all producing food for
ammunition.
And thus it has come about
that today there are 100000 Jews
in America celebrating the tradi-
tional festival of Passover as peo-
pie Of the soil-their food the fruit
of their own labor-their effort
supplying many thousands of 9TH
er American tables. And as
they-and all the Jews of Amer
ica-share their synagogues and
SederS with the Servicemen and
Servicewomen of the United
States Armed Forces, prayers will
be for faraway sons and husbands
and fathers who today are fight
ing for freedom from the slavery
of modern times, and for all suf-
fering humanity in the Nazi-
occupied lands of Europe. They,
as farmers. will give thanks that
in this land of the Four Free
doms, they can on their own land
produce sinews for war-partici-