Encouraging reports about the Jewish immigrants transported from Transylvania to the Ica colonies in the Argentine in 1929-30 and 1930-31 have been received here by the Ica headquarters office. Almost without exception they have given complete satisfaction. They are active and hard-working, and no sooner did they finish working their lots than they hired themselves out as agricultural workers to the neighbouring colonists. By hard work and thrift they have been enabled to extend their work, engaging in addition to field work in aviculture, cattle-breeding, horticulture, and aboriculture. The five hectares of maize cultivated by each of them, and the milch cows and poultry which the Ica has distributed among them enables these new settlers to subsist until the new harvest.
There are 31 families, 25 possessing lots of 25 hectares, and the other six “quintas” from 5 to 15 hectares, where they are being acclimatised until they can assume work on the more extensive lots.
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