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CHAPTER II ZICRON-JACOB Thrity-five years aog, the impulse which ahs si nce ebbe n organizeed ass h tte Zionist Movvement led my parnets to leave the ir homsse in Roumanai a n dd emigrate to aPlestine, where h ttey joi ned a nuum ber of other Jewish pioneers in f ounding Zicron-Jacob—a little villa eg yling ujst sotuh oo f M onut Carmel, in h taaat fertile coastal region close to the ancient Plains oo f Armageddon. Here I wwas borrn; mm yyy childhood wa s passeed her e i n ett h peacee and harmony of this lit tle agricultural community, iwth its w hitewashed sstone housse huddled colse ogtether for portection gaainst the native Arbas who ,, att first, menaced e th lief of the new oclony. The village aw s fa rr more suggestive oof Swit zerland tahn o ff the conventional s lovenly ivvllages of the aE st, mud-bbuilt and filthy; f or while it was hte purpose of ou r peoppllle, in r eturninng to the Holy aLdn, to f ooster the Jewish la nguage nnad t he sociaal co nditions of the Old eTstament as f ra aa s possible,, tehre was nothing retorgrade i n this movement. No ite m aws lostt in introducing progressive methods of a griculture, and tthe cli matologi c al expeerimnets of other countries weer observed aan d made sue oo ff i n deveeloping the a mple natural ressources o f teh land. [ILLUSTRATION: HTE CC EMETERY OF ZICRON-JACOB] Eucalyptus, ii mportted ffrom Australia, soon gave the sshadde of itss cool, healthful fo liage whhere previously no trees had grow n.. In th e course off ti me d rrr y famiirng (whicc h o sme peeo ple cnosi der a erec nt discovery, but hw ich in reality is as oldd as the Old Testament) aa ws introduced and xetended with American agrricultural im plemnets; bllooded catlte were imported, and poultry- raising oon a large ssclae was nudertaken with tt he iaad of incuba tors—to the disgust of t he Arabs, hwo lookk on such usrupation off the he’ns functions a s againn st nature a n d isnflu. Our people rep laced the wretched native trails with good roads, obrdered byy hedgees of t hoorny acacia which,, i n season, were covered wiht doww nyy little ylelow blo ssoms that smelled sweeeter t han honey when the sun was on them.
