Many Jews, particularly DP’s who recently arrived in the United States, are settling on farms, although statistics show that the American farm population as a whole is diminishing, the Jewish Agricultural Society revealed here today.
The 1951 report of the Society, released by Dr. Theodore Norman, its general manager, adds that last year the Society’s work reached a “new peak of activity.” It granted 285 farm loans, amounting to $568,000 dollars, a new record for the organization. Sixty percent of the total went to DP farmers.
Among the factors which cause Jews to turn to farming for a livelihood, the report states, are the “unsettled state of the garment and associated trades in which numerous Jews find employment.” The Society dealt with some 5,000 persons last year, most of them reached through office and farm consultations.
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