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Show H TEACHING THE JEW TO FARM. LM (Herbert Francis Sherwood in the Outlook.) M Tho Jewish Agricultural and Indus- M trial society was incorporated in 1900, M with headquarters in New York city. H Backed by the Baron de Hlrch fund, M it is in a position to play an nggres- K slvo part in the distribution of Jews. H "When a Jew does exhibit a desire to H put behind him the brick walls -and M hot asphalt streets for a life which 1 requires no commemorative booth on M a tenement houso top as a reminder of tlie occupation of his ancestors, M the socloty stands ready to assist H him. If he satisfies its officials of his H capacity and his slncerety of purpose, H he is theu aided in the selection and H purchuse of a farm suitably located H and money with which to make a start H is put at his service. H It the Jew falls as a farmer, it Avill H not be for lack, of thoroughgoing sup- H- port. In the course of the last nine H years, the society has loaned approxl- H mately ?S00,000, of which sum consid- H erably more than one-third has been H renuld. In urder that- there may bo no difficulty in creating the essential re-H re-H liglous and social conditions, as well H as meeting the need for suitable laud, it has adopted the policy of buying H favorably situated tracts for subdhi-H subdhi-H slon. In this manner, the Jew may bo H assured, not only of good land, but of H neighbors congenial from ossontial H points of view. A Yiddish agrlcultul-H agrlcultul-H al paper Is published and a system H of Itinerant instruction provided The H editor visits the several settlements H and delivers lectures on appropriate H topics. In the spring he makes a sec- ond round, calling upon the individual farmers, in order to note their prog-H prog-H res6 and to give sch advlco about I methods of management and cultlva-H cultlva-H tlon as may be needed. The socioty - conducts a farm labor bureau, with I the chief purpOBO of oponing doors to opportunities for interested Jews I , U learn something about practical ag-I ag-I rlculture before engaging in it on I their own account. A system of scholarships has been established in H order to enable children of Jewish I farmers to attend the special courses offered bv sUto agrlcultulay colleges. I TheBe "are awarded by competition f Vhich consists in writing on a special- --ly assigned topic. The awards are I WntjHnt upon the satisfact on of the ihtX-jtfi of Uie authorldes of the V, -KJiincBs to pursue the I . Z,f,- - I brew agricultural scboJobeen e)tabll8hed. lt Vd: Tho parental society ha3 atimnlatcr' the organization of farmers' societies in the different colonies. Today there arc more than twenty-five such or- ganlzatlons in New Jersey, New York, ConnpcUcut, Massachusetts and .North Dakota, not to mention othors which doubtless have been formed since that total was recorded. Their reprcsenta- tlves assembled in New York last I year and formed the Federation of I ' Jewish Farmers of America. ln these davs one doen not expect to find among New York Clty8 many I if Wxnihltions as agricultural fr. The w ntco'.-ffer of one in the congested teneiuw.. J dlstricUy on the East side I would be trJSMirKparticularlr remark-I remark-I able. Nevortheless"'w?t -A-lBltor to the I Bduoatlonl alliance, the tfreat -oigih I educational institution near SewardT I Park, In the course of Succotu week, last vcar would have found a display ' of the fruits of the flold astonishing in more than ono respect. It was the first annual fair of the fodorntlon. Thero wore 925 entries made by 225 exhibitors, bo distant a stato as North DakoU being represented hy sevoral exhlbita. |