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other western states. The Professor worked very hard 

 for several days, examining all these offerings, with 

 experts from the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, 

 and awarding medals and diplomas for the best exhibits. 

 Any reader happening to visit the homes of these farmers 

 today would see these framed documents on the walls, 

 where they would be pointed to with pride and the sig- 

 nature of Professor Sabsovich with sorrow. 



On numerous occasions the Professor and I visited 

 Colchester, Conn., Ellington, Conn., and Nassau, N. Y., 

 to address the local associations of the Jewish farmers. 

 I recollect that, on several occasions, although his health 

 was very poor, he would go, in order that the farmers 

 might not be disappointed, and frequently we had to 

 travel fifteen to twenty miles by horses, as at that time 

 there were no automobiles. 



I remember clearly the last meeting attended by Pro- 

 fessor Sabsovich. It was the organization meeting of 

 the First Farmers* Saving and Loan Association under 

 the newly organized Land Bank of New York, held at 

 Centerville Station, Sullivan County, N. Y. It was early 

 in the spring of 1914, and the Professor was convalescing 

 after rather a severe illness at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, 

 and I stopped there for him, and he went, accompanied 

 by Mrs. Sabsovich. We arrived safely at Centerville 

 Station, and the Professor spoke a few encouraging 

 words to the farmers. After the meeting we drove over 

 to Mr. Samuel Shindler's farm at Hurleyville, and as the 

 elevation is about fifteen hundred feet there and the air 

 cold and rarefied to a marked degree, the Professor spent 

 a very restless night. Mrs. Sabsovich was certainly glad 

 to get him back home safely. 



When the Federation of Jewish Farmers of America 

 was organized, there was created an advisory committee, 



