The Jewish Agricultural Society announced that it will undertake a survey of opportunities for Jewish farm settlement in the state of Florida and, if conditions warrant will open a branch office there. The society noted several favorable factors, especially with respect to marketing and indicated that a new field might be opened for Jewish settlers in a state where the Jewish population is on the increase.
New Jewish farmers have been established recently in poultry-farming and other branches of agriculture in the East and in California, the society reported. More than half of these new farmers are DP’s and recent immigrants. The Florida survey of settlement prospects will be conducted by Herman J. Levine.
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