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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 19, 1922 
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General Farm Topics 
Co-operative Farming in Palestine 
We have a number of co-operative 
forms of organizations among farmers iu 
this country. In fact, some of these or¬ 
ganizations, such as co-operative lire in¬ 
surance, co-operative elevators, co-opera¬ 
tive marketing associations, are much 
more successful and more remarkable 
than the so much talked about and 
praised co-operative associations of Eu¬ 
rope. 
Hut we do not have many, if any, suc¬ 
cessful co-operative farms or colonies. 
At the present time there are visiting in 
this country a delegation of Palestinian 
.Jewish farmers largely iu the interest of 
establishing "The Workers’ Bank of 
Palestine, Ltd.", about which unique in¬ 
stitution I hope I shall have an oppor¬ 
tunity to speak later. These delegates 
are members of co-operative colonies, 
which have been working successfully for 
over 32 years, and it is soinp facts about 
these interesting colonies that L want to 
relate to the American farmers. 
Way hack in 1010 there came to Pal¬ 
estine a group of enthusiasts from South 
Russia (Ukraine), and as all the Jewish 
immigrants in Palestine, they wanted to 
work on land, but they did not want to 
work for others, but wanted to work co¬ 
operatively for themselves. They per¬ 
suaded the Jewish National Fund, an 
official Zionist agency, which had been 
and is buying land in Palestine, to let 
them have a tract of land, and the Jew¬ 
ish National Fund agreed to let them 
have the land, to build for them houses, 
In all the three Daganias there are 
about 100 adults. During the war the 
prices of the products were so high that 
the colonists made a lot of profit. In¬ 
stead of dividing the profits with the 
l'und, the colonists are now making ar¬ 
rangements to pay a certain rental for 
the land, buildings, etc., as this laud can¬ 
not. be sold, hut is the property of the 
Jewish Nutioual Fund. All the profits 
which will he made on these farms are 
to be divided equally among till workers. 
The children are provided with a kinder¬ 
garten teacher anti a school teacher, at 
the expense of the whole group. This is 
real co-operation. 
The Unreal) of Domestic and Foreign 
Commerce of the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Commerce recently reported the 
arrival of a shipload of American trac¬ 
tors and other agricultural machinery at 
the port of Jaffa, Palestine. This ship¬ 
load was sent in as a contribution of 
Jews of America to the Jews of Pales¬ 
tine. and it consisted largely of plows, 
harrows, cultivators, binders, mowers, 
rakes, thrashers, tractors and tractor 
equipment, potato planters, etc. These 
tools were sent to the Palestine Workers’ 
Fund, which is routing these machines to 
co-operative groups of colonies. Two 
mechanics, who in addition to receiving 
training in Amer.can schools, also spent 
several months at the factories where 
this machinery was purchased, in order 
lo become more familiar with the work¬ 
ing of the machines were sent along with 
the shipload of machinery, and they are 
not only putting the machines together, 
Hu if din os on a Farm in Palestine 
and even to furnish some capital, pro¬ 
vided this group will work the land, pav 
a certain rental for the land, and after 
deducting nil the expenses divide the net 
profits, half going to the workers and half 
to the Fond. 
The land selected was situated near the 
river Jordan, in Galilee, and is known ns 
Dagania. It is within a few miles of 
1 iborias and about 60 miles from Naza¬ 
reth. About TOO acres were given to the 
first group of 32 workers. The first two 
years they lived in huts together with the 
native Arabs. Then a large house, barn 
and other buildiugs were built. At first 
grain crops, such as wheat, barley, oats 
and lentils were grown. From the very 
beginning the Colony was worked on a 
co-operative plan; every man had to 
work, and all were equal in their re¬ 
muneration for work, etc. 
After a few years’ experience it was 
discovered tlmt it is best to practice 
mixed farming and that it is absolutely 
necessary to produce everything needed 
by the farmers. In order to do this it 
was found that less land is needed, ami 
the land should he worked more inten¬ 
sively, and so unw there are three sepa¬ 
rate colonies—Dagania A, Dagania B 
and Dagania C. 
According to the words of Mr. J. 
Barntz. who is one of the delegates now 
in America and who was one of the origi- 
hut also are instructing the Palestinians 
how to use them. 
A tew months previous to the sending 
of the machinery there wits established a 
model American farm near Colony Zieh- 
rnn Jacob Inear Jallai. where live grad¬ 
uates of University of California are go¬ 
ing to demonstrate the use of American 
methods in the dairy, poultry, fruit grow¬ 
ing and vegetable growing. They also 
took a lot of American machinery along 
and imported purebred stock from Hol¬ 
land. 
Recently the American Zionist Com¬ 
monwealth sent to its colony, called "Bal- 
touria," several American tractors and 
thrashers and other machinery. Several 
of the American .Tews living in Palestine 
imported the almond hulling machines, 
which are used and manufactured in 
California. 
Whenever Palestine farmers come to 
America—and there have beeu quite a 
tew the past year —they arc always in¬ 
terested in looking over our farm imple¬ 
ments used Lo this country and always 
take along any new thing they see. There 
ran lie no question that both the Ameri¬ 
can agricultural implements and Ameri¬ 
can methods will play a very important 
part in reconstructing the ancient home 
of Israel into a modern agricultural com¬ 
monwealth. j. w. riNcus. 
nal settlers, there 
36 mem hers in 
FRANK FOERSTER 
Forest Farms 
bags Inclmlci). 
Kasoag. N. Y. 
Dagania A. This includes 10 married 
couples, 16 single men and there are now 
11 children. There is a complete equality 
among men and women, many women do¬ 
ing field work, and vice versa, many men 
doing household duties. Whether mar¬ 
ried or single, <>r having au.v children, all 
get the same privileges and compensation. 
The assignment of work is talked over 
every night at the supper table. They 
eat all at one table; there is one kitchen. 
There are separate mums for the married 
folks; the bachelors live iu tents. 
They have now about 230 acres under 
cultivation in Dagania A. out of which 
12 acres are in olives and almonds, three 
acres in oranges and lemons, four to five 
acres in vegetables, and the balance of 
the land is divided into wheat, barley, 
oats, lentils, peas, beans and grass. They 
have about 40 head of cattle. 12 mules. 
In addition to supplying their own needs, 
they sell some of the grain crops, and 
also milk. By the way, many of the 
American farmers would like to sell their 
milk there, as they are getting for the 
milk IS cents per quart all the year 
around. They raise about a thousand 
chickens. They also have 30 beehives, 
and so are literally in the “land of milk 
and honey.” 
Drainage Into Wells 
Every now and (hen some one starts 
op the old argument for "well drainage.” 
I his is suggested for flat or “dishing’’ 
places where there is not enough fall to 
carry the water easily away. The plan 
is to dig a well down into some central 
place and tile the water into it. There 
are a few locations where some such plan 
will work. Wr sometimes find cracks or 
openings in the underlying rock through 
which water will run down, or there may 
be a subsoil of coarse sand or gravel 
above the natural water line. In such 
cases the drainage water will run off be¬ 
low and the well will do the work. Such 
locations are rare, but the success of such 
a system will he limited to them. In 
most cases such a well would quickly fill 
up with the drainage water and make 
the soil worse than it was before. We 
should never attempt any such scheme 
until the soil had been thoroughly exam¬ 
ined and wo were sure of full under¬ 
ground drainage. In one raise a large 
cistern was dug out and tiles were run 
into it. During wet weather the cistern 
filled, and (luring a dry time the water 
was pumped out and used for irrigating 
the field. 
