Prospects of greatly improved crops for this year in the Jewish colonies in Russia were indicated in a report send by Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, head of the Agro-Joint to the United Jewish Campaign headquarters in New York.
From the entire Cherson district where last year, crop conditions were unsatisfactory, two hundred and fifty families returned to the cities last winter, out of a total of two thousand families settled there. Of the two hundred and fifty there had returned before March of this year, one hundred fifty-four families.
It is a common practice, says Dr. Rosen, for some farmers to take their teams to the cities or mines, or to work in factories during the winter months when there is nothing to do on the farms. In the Cherson district, last winter, members of an additional one hundred families left for this purpose. All of them Dr. Rosen stated, have returned for the spring plowing.
Discussing the crop conditions in the colonies last year, Dr. Rosen says in his report that the Crimean settlements enjoyed a very good harvest. The distress in the Krivoy-Rog district of the Ukraine was relieved by the Joint Distribution Committee and other organizations. with the cooperation of the government which granted food and seed loans among other forms of assistance.
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