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future leaders in the agricultural movement as a light- 

 house serves to the stranded ship in the night or in the 

 fog, warning them to keep away from the shore and 

 look out for the breakers. The experiments carried on 

 in Woodbine, N. J., while not always bringing the desired 

 results, are nevertheless invaluable and will serve as a 

 basis for practical study of land settlements and will save 

 a loss of time and money, as well as prevent failure, if 

 the people who are interested will avail themselves of 

 the opportunity to look into this carefully. In his work 

 at the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School, which is dis- 

 cussed elsewhere, he has helped to create a class of 

 trained scientific Jewish agriculturists, whose leadership 

 is indispensable to the cause of Jewish farming. Many 

 of these have become leaders in agriculture in the United 

 States. 



During the last ten years of his life as the head of 

 the Baron de Hirsch Fund, his activities were in widely 

 scattered fields of social endeavor, but his influence upon 

 the agricultural movement among the Jewish people, 

 while indirect, was nevertheless predominant. 



Professor Sabsovich was one of the first to advocate 

 and edit The Jewish Farmer publication in Yiddish in 

 the year 1900, which was later on suspended for a while 

 until we had sufficient people who could utilize the serv- 

 ices of such a paper. He was one of the first to advocate 

 the introduction of horticulture and agriculture in the 

 various orphan asylums in the United States, since in 

 his opinion many of the wards would develop an inclina- 

 tion to take farming up as a vocation and thus afford 

 many a healthy opportunity to grow outside of the con- 

 gested and overcrowded cities. The importance of this 

 suggestion has not been realized as yet, but the fact is 

 that while we have gradually developed a class of Jewish 



