PIONEER AGRICULTURAL WORK LN THE ORIENT 



The first agricultural experiment station to be developed along American lines in the Orient 

 was started at Haifa, Palestine, by Aaron Aaronsohn. Its progress, which was being watched 

 with interest b}^ plantsmen throughout the world, was interrupted by the world war, but 

 Dr. Aaronsohn, who is here seen examining one of his irrigation ditches in company with his 

 secretary and his foreman, intended to resume experimental work the moment peace was 

 restored. Just at the moment when it seemed possible to do this, and he was making plans 

 to that end, he met his death in the fall of an airplane. 



