The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-05
2, 775,00O,O0 bu.
(65,500,O00 metric tons)


(65, 100000 metric tons)
1t is to noted that not only the sown
area for 1925 was per cent larger
than the sown area for 1924, but also
the yields were larger, giving 1044
pounds per head of the rural popula-
ton while in 1924 they were only 720
pounds. The average yields were:
For rye, IL bushels per acre; for
wheat, IL 2-S bushels per acre; bar
ley, Is 2-S bushels per acre; oats, "a
bushels per acre; corn % bushels per
acre.
The estimated commercial surplus
Of grain for 1925 is between four hun
dred fifty million bushels.
THE surplus grain available for
i domestic and export trade is fair
ly widely distributed among the vari-
GUS groups of Russian farmers. 1t
should be noted, however, that two
thirds of this commercial surplus is
in the hands of twenty-five per cent
of the farmers.
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quarters that the Soviet Union may
unload large quantities of cheap
grain on the worlds markets. Any
one familiar with hte present day con-
ditions in Russia will realize that
this is not so. While the farmers
of hte Soviet Union may desire to
compete thru the higher quality of
their grain, they are not disposed to
be competitors on the basis of cheap
ness.
1t is well to recall in this connection
that Russian settlers introduced the
drought resisting Crimean wheat
known as Turkey Red into Kansas,
and that Russian farmers from Kher-
son introduced into Iowa, Illinois and
Nebraska the well-known Wisred or
Sixty Day variety of oats.
| 1t must also be borne in mind that
the Russian farmers are far better or
ganized than farmers in several other
countries. Let me state right here
tlat Agricultural Producers Societies
Il European Russia, exclusive of ST.
IBERIA, Caueasia and Khirgizia and Tx
rhine have $4,000 unions with over
three million nine hundred thousand
farm members; with Ukraine includ-
ed this membership will reach five
million mark The capital of these
societies is 28 million gold roubles.
THE consumers co-operatives embrace
over ten million members in their
ranks. These)9 consumers co-opera-
tives have capital of 80 million gold
roubles, and they are distributing at
the present time about 20 per cent of
1.-THE entire output of the textile fac
tories of Russia; from 40 to so per
cent of the entire sugar output, so
per cent of the salt output, and about
As per cent of the domestic output of
metal goods. t
FNHESE organized farmers try to OBJ
L tain the best possible prices for
their products, as do the farmers in
any other country.
Furthermore these Russian farmers
are now steadily adopting modern me-
thods of farming. Tractor farming
has made great strides in the arid re-
gions and in the south of Russia.
Some ten thousand tractors have been
exported to Russia since May LIST,
1924, from the United States alone
thru the Amtorg Trading Corporation.
AS a result of the revolution, Russi-
an farm labor is enjoying much high
er standard of living than before the
war. Russia therefore is no longer
to be considered a country of cheap
farm labor or of cheap farm products.
Rather the other way, the Russian
farmers are eagerly hoping that the
world grain markets should be stabil-
ICED at such levels, as to make fur
Their Improvements in agriculture
'remunerative.
DERMIT me, on behalf of the de-
l. parted representatives of the So
Wet Commissariat of Agriculture, to
express their and the Russian farm
ers' deep gratitude to the American
farmers for the effective aid rendered
during the famine year, 1921, thru