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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Decembq 4, 1942
Each Man to His Vineyard .. .
The information that one of
the largest Jewish agrarian pop-
ulations in the world exists in the
United States will come as sur-
prise news to many. But the fact
is the 1/8th of the more than
800,000 Jews throughout the
world who take up farming for
a living, reside in this country.
The size of the American Jew-
ish afrm population is further
notable because the increase took
plan , during an era of great in-
dustrial and commercial expan-
sion when the general flow of
population was away from the
By DR. GABRIEL DAVIDSON
which is the largest and most adopted by other farm organiza-
comprehensive credit system that tions, including State and Fed-
hits ever been devised in any eral agencies.
country.
The Jewish Agricultural So-
It is a tribute both to the Jew- ciety, by functioning as a loan
ish farm element and the organi- agency to Jewish farmers created
farm.
awards and sweepstakes for his zations devoted to the promotion what was in a sense the first
At the beginning of the cen- products. British breeders have of farming as a Jewish occupa- "farmers" bank in the United
tury, there was scarcely 1,000 paid as high as $1.00 apiece for tion that their successful develop- States. The executive head of the
Jewish farmers in the United the eggs of hens bred by a Jew- ment was due to guidance rather JAS later was invited to collabo-
rate in drafting the first Federal
States. Their holdings were small, ish farmer in New York, who is than subsidies. Most failures in Farm Loan Act and became the
most of them located within eas y one of the foremost breeders of farm settlement before the estab- first president of the Federal
lishment of the Jewish Agricul-
reach of New York City in the white leghorns in the world.
Land Bank with jurisdiction over
adjoining states of New Jersey A Jewish vegetable grower is is tural Society could be attributed the New England States, New
to
lack
of
planning
and
almost
no
and Connecticut, and their ag ri " crop reporter for the U. S. De-
York and New Jersey.
cultural activities were limited ' nt of Agriculture — a post consideration of such vital fac-
The JAS was it pioneer in the
location,
tors
as
geographical
chiefly to dairying and vegetable P ar4me
`
evolution of the agricultural
awarded
only
to
leading
farmers.
capital
character
of
the
land,
gardening.
Today Jews are settled on His fields are selected each year needs, farm experience and fit- credit union and its early recom-
HOTELS
by the State Experiment Station ness, etc. The organization of mendation became recognized
farms whose gross acreage is for research in various types of the Jewish Agricultural Society credit union practices and were
ROOSEVELT
about 1,500,000 acres; their farm truck farming. One farmer in the in 1900 gave this agricultural embodied later in credit union
holdings have been estimated to Sacramento River delta raises an- movement the type of support and practices and were embodied later
2250 14TH ST.
he worth more than $150,000,000. nually crops of asparagus and direction it had heretofore lacked.
Opposite Mich. Central Depot
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While most of them live in Con- broccoli worth $110,000; another Through its activities it accelerat-
necticut, New Jersey, Ohio and in Connecticut grows the best to- ed the pace of Jewish farm set-
YORBA
Michigan, Jewish farmers can be matoes. tlement.
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found in virtually every state of
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Near Ambassador Bridge
Sonic of the outstanding teach-
During the past 42 years the
the union, engaged in every ers of the science of agriculture
loans,
14,109
Society
granted
branch of agriculture practiced in are Jews as are some of the fore-
REX
L. C. MAUZY
the United States: dairying, most agricultural economists in amounting to $8,647,000; it was
120 W. MONTCALM
poultry-raising. , truck-farming, flo- t he country like the late Jacob J. directly responsible for establish-
Downtown Detroit
ing
many
thousands
of
Jews
on
riculture, orcharding, viscuiture, Taubenhaus, an authority on
and Associates
cattle-raising. , cotton, sugar beets, plant diseases who was chief of the land; its employment service
WILLARD
tobacco, grain, etc. Many of the the Division of Plant Pathology found jobs for nearly 20,000 in-
Appraisers—Engineers
448 HENRY
farmers are outstanding ones, and Physiology at the Texas State dividuals; it granted 340 scholar-
Industrial Surveys
Between Cass and Second
recognized as specialists in their Eriment Station; Selman A. ships to farm-minded Jewish stu-
xpe
dents;
published
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agricultural
Reasonable
particular
spheres
of
agriculture.
A recognized authority for
Conveniently
Waksman, who is professor of texts in Yiddish and rendered
Rates
27 years
Located
One Jewish farmer operates Soil Microbiology at Riitgers and hundreds of other services.
the largest mushroom growing recipient of the Nitrogen Research
Appraisers---
Registered
One of its most gratifying
plant in the State of New York Award; Moses N. Levine who is
U. S. District Court
which has an annual crop turn- considered one of the leading achievements is the fact that its
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over of $60,000. The largest pro- plant pathologists in the country contributions to Jewish socio-eco-
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ducer of cattle and blue grass and has won special distinction nomics benefited the entire agri-
through
his
researches
on
diseases
cultural
community
in
the
United
seed
in
Kentucky
is
a
Jew.
An-
CAdillac 6654
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other is the largest potato grower that attack grain; the late Jacob States because many of its tech-
J. Lipman, Dean of Rutgers Col- niques and practices have been
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in Connecticut.
Jews are among the best poul- lege of Agriculture, one of the
try-raisers in the United States. world's authorities on soils.
COLLISION SPECIALISTS
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A father and son operate . a duck The researches of Myer Edwin
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250,000.
They
are
probably
the
much
to
advance
the
interests
of
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largest duck growers in the coun- fruit growers because they re-
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try. One poultry farmer in Con- vealed the health-giving proper-
12920 Grand River Avvenue
necticut has been awarded 39 ties of fruits; Joseph A. Rosen,
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medals, cups and international teacher and colonizationist of 300,-
000 Jewish families on 3,000,000
acres of land in the Ukraine and
the Crimea, who introduced a var-
Proprietor of the
iety of rye to this country, named
after him, which can be grown
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In the domain of farm econo-
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244 W. Congress St.
H. Bean, who is chief of the
Agricultural Relations Section in
the Division of Program Plan-
ning of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Administration, and Henry
, Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the
Treasury, who organized the
Farm Credit Administration
Editor's Note: Dr. Davidson, for niany years actively interested
in the promotion of farming as a Jewish occupation, reviews
the accomplishments of Jewish farmers in the United States
and the role of the Jewish Agricultural Society in encouraging
and developing. Jewish interest in agriculture.
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