More than 2,000 Jews are now living on Canadian farms, a third of them on settlements sponsored by the Jewish Colonization Association, it was reported today by Dr. Herman Abramovitz, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Canadian J.C.A. which has been functioning here since 1891.
“Five of the larger of these settlements in Western Canada each year produced over 400,000 bushels of grain,” the report said. “The production policies of the J.C.A. settlements in Canada have been geared to the wartime agricultural program of the Federal Government. The International Labor Office characterized the Jewish colonization Association as the only example of an organization dedicated to colonization for its own sake without thought of gain.”
Dr. Abramovitz also reported that 28,000 Jews now live in Jewish Colonization Association settlements in Argentina. “These settlements,” the report adds, “are spread throughout the vast Argentine Republic in order to foster close touch with all closes of Argentine life. Two-thirds of the annual produce of these settlements, which exceeds $3,000,000 a year, is in grain and the balance equally in dairy, cattle, poultry and feed. The settlements vary from the 50-year-old Moisesville with its population of 5,000 to the newest, Avigdor, which is only now being cleared and settled by several hundred Jewish refugees, most of them from Germany. The children of the farmers remain on the land and are settled in their turn by the Jewish Colonization association or secure land elsewhere in the Argentine.”
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