The land Reserves on the estates of the Jewish Colonization Association (Ica) in the Argentine, total an area of about 590,000 hectares, on which over a thousand families could be settled on the land, it is officially stated by the headquarters of the Ica here. The Ica desires to colonize its land only with experienced men who show capacity for agriculture. Apart from the sons of colonists and the agricultural workers employed in the various groups whose capacity has been observed in the course of their work, there are families of immigrants arriving in the Argentine who desire to settle in the colonies. The Ica takes special interest in such.
A system has been in operation for the past three years, by which the newcomers are installed on enclosed areas of from 10 to 25 hectares each, and provided with a small house and a well. If the settlers demonstrate their capacity for agriculture, they are settled on the same conditions as the old immigrants. When they have become fully familiar with the methods of the country, they are definitely admitted and are provided with a plot of land which may be about 100 hectares in area. 51 families have till now been settled in this manner. Some of these settlers have succeeded remarkably well and have shown themselves of the stock from which true agriculturists are made.
The Ica proposes now to apply this method on a larger scale.
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