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farmers and while we have a number of young men who 

 have taken up agriculture as a vocation from the practi- 

 cal and scientific point of view, most of them are handi- 

 capped, in carrying out their desire because they cannot 

 find Jewish girls who would be willing to share with 

 them their lives on a farm. We are still to find a way 

 to develop the love for country life among our Jewish 

 women. The suggestion made by the late Professor 

 Sabsovich would serve as a good nucleus for that purpose. 



For twenty-five years, quietly and unassumingly he 

 continued to use his influence in directing the agricultural 

 movement among our Jewish people in the United States, 

 and the results obtained in that field can to a great extent 

 be placed to his credit, since the majority of the present 

 leaders in that field have directly or indirectly felt his 

 influence. 



Unfortunately, like Moses, he was not destined by 

 fate to lead his people to the promised land. He did 

 not live to see the present development of the Jewish 

 agricultural movement in this country, which is now 

 greatly expanding. There were very few Jewish farmers 

 when Prof. Sabsovich first started to work among our 

 people and encourage them to take up farming. 



There are now over 10,000 prosperous Jewish farmers 

 in the United States, tilling and occupying over 1,000,000 

 acres of land worth from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 at 

 the least. I am sure that he would rejoice to witness 

 the splendid progress attained by our Jewish people in 

 the field of farming, but I am inclined to believe that he 

 had the foresight to feel it and to know it, which gave 

 him the courage to continue persistently his fight in that 

 direction. 



The writer, who has for the past fifteen years been 

 actively connected with the Jewish farming movement 



