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affection, increasing from year to year as I learned to 

 know the man better and came into closer contact with 

 him. It was entirely due to his advice and influence that 

 I decided to enter an agricultural college, to return to 

 Woodbine to become his co-worker and to devote 

 twenty years of my life to work for and among Jewish 

 farmers in the United States. 



From the very beginning of the Woodbine Colony, 

 while the tract of land was covered with pine and oak 

 trees, which the pioneers were clearing away, he saw 

 the necessity of imparting proper scientific information 

 to the farmers, and the first winter at Woodbine, Pro- 

 fessor Sabsovich delivered lectures, illustrated with stere- 

 opticon, slides, on agricultural topics. Notwithstanding 

 his numerous and arduous duties at Woodbine, he found 

 time to go frequently to the South Jersey Jewish colonies, 

 at Alliance, Carmel and Norma, and address the farmers 

 there, encourage them in their work, and deliver illus- 

 trated lectures. As far back as 1895 he advocated the 

 establishment of a canning factory in these colonies, and 

 about ten years later they were established in each one. 



In 1894 he went to Chesterfield and Colchester, Conn., 

 to deliver lectures to the Jewish farmers there. These 

 were delivered in Yiddish. As Professor Sabsovich was 

 born and reared in South Russia (Ukraine), and his 

 native language was Russian, his Yiddish was rather 

 poor, and he had to learn the language in order to make 

 himself understood. The Professor was the first man 

 in the United States to deliver lectures in Yiddish on 

 agricultural topics, and he thus preceded by about fifteen 

 years the work of itinerant instruction, and lecturing in 

 Yiddish, inaugurated by the Jewish Agricultural and 

 Industrial Society in 1908. 



The first exhibition of farm products raised by Jewish 



