Word has been received at the headquarters’ office of the World’s Grain Exhibition and Conference that the Jewish Colonisation Association (Ica) has accepted Canada’s invitation to participate in the world-wide Grain Exhibition and Conference at Regina in 1932 and in due course will forward exhibits.
The Argentine and Paris offices of the Association have notified the Canadian Committee of the organisation of its intention, not only to encourage individual entries by Jewish farmers of the Argentine, but also to prepare an educational exhibit of the Association’s work in that country, where there are seven Jewish farm colonies, those of Mauricio, Moiseville, Entrerios, Baron Firsch, Narcisse-Levin, Dora and Montefiore, containing a total Jewish population of 15,560 souls actually engaged in farming more than half a million acres of land. Some idea of the extensive nature of the activities of the Ica in the Argentine may be obtained from the fact that in 1929 these colonies threshed 2,122,800 bushels of wheat from 260,737 acres, 1,363,385 bushels of flax from 163,527 acres, 656,932 bushels of corn from 75,085 acres, and 1,435 tons of Kafir corn, Soudam grass and sunflower from 11,252 acres. In addition 182,912 acres are devoted to alfalfa pastures and 82,477 acres to the raising of oats, rye, barley and feed crops. While the Jewish farmers of the Argentine like their Italian, Argentine and German neighbours are engaged in the growing of grain crops on a large scale, they are also extensively engaged in dairying and cattle raising and at the close of last year farmers of the Association’s colonies in the Argentine possessed 122,729 heads of cattle, 67,762 horses, 16,404 sheep, 450 goats and 403,609 poultry with a total estimated value of over $4,500,000. Last year the dairy products of the Jewish farmers of the Argentine consisted of a total of 5,681,084 gallons of milk marketed in the various forms valued at $456,563.
In addition to the Argentine, the Ica operates extensively in Palestine, Brazil, Russia, Roumania and Canada. In Western Canada five major Jewish farms are administered, near Hirsch, Hoffer, Lipton, and Edenbridge in Saskatchewan, and Rumsey, in Alberta. Jewish participation in agriculture in Canada can be noted by the following statistics: total acreage cultivated, 100,000 acres: production: wheat 574,000 bushels, flax 15,080 bushels. In addition a considerable number of milch cows and poultry are kept.
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