The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-26
RUSSIAN CROPS
EXPECTED TO
BREAK FAMINE
Leaders Are Planning to Trans
port Grain TO Petrograd,
Moscow and Popu-
lOus Districts.
100000 ACRES SOWN
Soviet Government Campaigns
Have Resulted in Impor-
tant Improvements
in Agriculture.

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LoSDoN, June B.--sOsie; Russia
leaders see the dawn Of r-consiruciioi
breaking after the black night Of izmin'
and pe-iilence.
The famine. according TO Soviet re
porr.. j. over. It, effects are sill benz
felr. and will be for months: but report
from all paris Of Russia deciare tina
good crops are in prospect.
Peasants in the Nolga region. emaeiaied
ba. still game. are marching back 20 the
homa. they we're forced by hunger to
l,sye lssi suiUmn.
Agricultural reports -,aie ihai spring
sowing hss been successful. that rains
have been sufficient; ard pictures are
b-ing drawn Of smiling he4d-. where last
summer only -un-psrched de-er could
be- seen.
The Russian leaders are planning the
harvest and the transport 10 carry grain
To MO-coN, Perogrsd and other pcpu-
lOus districts.
That !. Why the Soviet delegates al
Genoa we're not more, plant. They be-
lesed then that the worst of their trou-
bic. Sere over. If their optimism l. un-
justified and Russia i faced By another
winter Of starvation. the Soyieis will take
what terms ihey can. If il i justified:
The next Russian conference will be
held at Mo-1DN.- Soviet trade delegate
here told the United Press today.
Russia has treaties with Germany,
Great Britain and Italy Germany will
end capital and technical experts into
Russia. Great Britain il sending cloth,
provisions. metals. chemicals. coal, and
agricultural and textile machinery. ltaly
has received facilities for oil production
and for transport wa the Black Sea from
Baku and Odessa TO Italian ports. 4 ne~
Italian trade delegation has arrived at
Moscow. 4 fair trade Is being done with
Turkey and other neaT-easiern countries.
FOOD THE THING.
But food i the most important thing.
The American Relief Administration re-
Gently announced that a. many a. 100000
peasants have passed through kazan, the
center Of the NOlga famine region, in a
single day On their way back 10 their
homes. Reports issued By the Bolshevik
government are rosy.
Statistics issued at Moscow have jus,
reached London. They declare that if
present prospects are realized, even the |
famine area will be seif-suppouing after
the autumn harvest.
Because Of the primitive nature Of its 4
agriculture, Russia Is greatly dependent |
upon weather. Seed seat TO the famine
area arrived late and peasants and off
cisls watched the skies fearfully. An
early, dry spring would have meant dis
asier, a. it would have prevented the
sowing Of large areas in the southeast
But as soon a. the SHOWS had melted, |
cold, wet weather set in over mosi Of the /
importln, grsin-producing areas. This
made il possible TO SOW exira-large
amounts Of spring grain in the Ukraine
and provinces outside the famine area,
thereby overcoming the small autumn
sowing.
Ii is stated that Soviet government
have resulted in important i'm
proyemenis in agricultural methods, no,a.
bly, in the use Of artificial manure. Gov.
ernment commissions, reports state, sue
ceeded in obtaining last summer more