Annual ReportThe Society, 1916 - Agricultural colonies |
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activities Agricultural College arrears with Installments arrears with Interest average Baron de Hirsch bought capital cent charged during 1917 Charged to Profit Connecticut cooperation credit unions crop dairy December 31 Delaware educational Ellenville Eugene Meyer extension Farm Labor Bureau farm seekers field following table Foreclosed Hirsch Fund Horace Stern Installments charged Installments in arrears Installments paid Interest and Installments Interest charged Interest in arrears Interest paid J. G. Lipman January JEWISH AGRICULTURAL Jewish Colonization Association Jewish farmers large numbers later loans Loan Department loans aggregating loans amounting LOANS CLOSED loans granted Massachusetts ment Merged with later Michigan mortgage Murry Guggenheim North Dakota number of applicants number of loans Ohio organization Pennsylvania placed poultry Principal outstanding Profit and Loss purchase Repaid in full sanitary sanitation Solomon G Sullivan County tion TOTAL LOANS Transferred to Property Ulster Counties Ulster-Sullivan Western Office Wisconsin year's Yiddish York
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Page 16 - Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey "New...
Page 24 - The Nation has suffered in another way. The drastic economies which have become necessary on the farms have greatly reduced farm standards of living. They have compelled overwork by the farmers, unaccustomed farm work by farm mothers, increased work by children kept out of school — in too many cases the older children taken out for good. Continued disappointment on the part of all members of the family, worry and discouragement, added to privations, have resulted in the breaking up of many a home.
Page 8 - ... and despair, are too serious to be ignored. The comfortable doctrine of leaving the buyer to take care of himself has been discarded in many phases of our national life. Surely, in the settlement and development of land, the buyer should at least have full and complete information for his guidance. It appears that under existing conditions we should not attempt to stimulate unduly the normal rate of settlement, but rather to guide and protect the normal movement along lines which will insure...
Page 7 - ... They extol the position and opportunities of the American farmer and repeatedly urge the Jews to return to the soil. That their advice is frequently heeded is evidenced by the constant increase in the Jewish farming population during the past two decades.1 There are special Jewish agencies whose 1 "Statistics gathered by us in 1900 and 1901 of the Jewish farmers in New Jersey and Connecticut, where the bulk of the Jewish farming population was then to be found, placed the number at 216. A few...
Page 17 - Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; and the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and He shut up the heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the ground shall not yield her fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.
Page 8 - The purchasing power of the principal farm crops of the year 1921 at the present time is lower than ever before known. In times past some of these crops have sold at lower prices per sale unit expressed in dollars and cents, but probably never before have our farmers generally been compelled to exchange their crops per sale unit for such small amounts of the things they need.
Page 59 - Each group of schools is governed by a board of education composed of members selected by the farmers and representatives of the United Synagogue and of our Society. These school boards appoint the teachers and have charge of general school matters. The Synagogue advises on questions pertaining to curriculum, and our Society on subjects of fiscal policy. Teachers are selected not only from the point of view of their pedagogical qualifications but of their ability to develop into Jewish communal leaders.
Page 56 - The difficulty of providing religious education for farm children lies in the fact that even in comparatively compact communities, distances between farm homes are big. It is hard to get together a sufficiently large group to pay for the services of a teacher even where the parents are relatively well to do. Our plan calls for the pooling of the resources of two or three communities close enough for an instructor to travel from one to another, and yet too far apart to assemble the children in the...
Page 35 - ... (1) that at less than 2 per cent, of the rural homes in the United States are the most essential principles of sanitation consistently in practice, (2) that for less , than 3 per cent, of our rural population is local health service approaching adequacy provided, (3) that sustained efficient whole-time local health service is essential to the establishment and maintenance of reasonably good sanitary conditions in our rural districts, and (4) that...
Page 42 - To make the child of the Jewish farmer an important factor in the economy of the parental farm ; to instil in him a pride in his calling; and to implant in him a love for the soil...