3 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 See VINEYARD—Page 10 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. 4020 W. LAFAYETTE found in virtually every state of A Joyous Chanukah to All 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 40 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 Sincere Chanukah Greetings! over of $60,000. The largest pro- plant pathologists in the country contributions to Jewish socio-eco- 823 PENOBSCOT BLDG. 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 UPCHURCH 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 COLLISION SHOP 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 BODY REBUILDING A father and son operate . a duck The researches of Myer Edwin Latest Bee-Line Axle and Frame farm on Long Island which has Jaffa. professor of Nutrition at A JOYOUS CHANUKAH TO ALL an annual duck production of the University of California did Straightening Equipment 250,000. They are probably the much to advance the interests of Metal Bumping ti Painting largest duck growers in the coun- fruit growers because they re- ROY UPCHURCH 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, HOGARTH 7675 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 BEST WISHES FOR A JOYOUS CHANUKAH on soil of only moderate fertility. WAYNE CONGRESS GARAGE In the domain of farm econo- mics there is Mordecai Joseph Ezekial, economic adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture; Louis CLifford 2813 244 W. Congress St. H. 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