The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-07


amp, 220 volts, and the other one
is Is amp, 900 volts. Two Lett feed
grinders; one Homemade busket grain
elevator, windmill pump and garden
irrigation pump.
The carpenter shop is 30x5O with
machinery. One single spindle shap-
per, 1, "a" jointer, combination saw
table with boring attachment; 1, SO"
band saw; l circle saw stand.
For cleaning grain we have one
Marshal Fields large motor driven
tanning mill, three hand turned
tanning mills and one Carriers disc
special seed grading machine.
In the shoemaker shop we have
Landis's heavy duty sole stitcher, and
large size finisher. Also a singer
shoemaker sewing machine. We use
concrete mixing machine and block
machine, two delaval cream separa-
tors.
Farm Machine Shop.
To keep all these in running order
we have a combination machine and
blacksmith shop building 40x100. The
blacksmith shop side has three fires.
drill press and emery grinder and
other necessary small tool. The
machine shop side has a storage room
for spare parts, their value at pres
ent is about 10000 r. Machine shop
machinery consists of a lathe, drill
press, sharper, and emery wheel, be-
sides all Kinds of small tool. This
machine shou is under reconstruc-
ton to be enlarged. More machinery
will be installed to take care of not
only our own renair work. but for
the rapidly machinerized vicinity.
Our Field Cultures.
In 1923 we had under cultivation
about 900 acres, in 1924, 5000 acres: in
1925, 5000 acres; in 1926, 5000 acres;
and our plan for 1927 is about 5000
acres. Our field cultures this year
will be as follows: under winter
wheat (this is very promising) 2,400
acres; for spring wheat (now being
seeded) 1000 acres; oats $40 acres;
barley 240 acres; corn 500 acres, and
also other small cultures.
Our average yield of winter wheat
has been II pools per hectare for
the last three years. The average
yield of oats for the last three years
has been lao pools per hectare. Corn
yielded on the average for three
years 124 pools per hectare. The
net profits from our fields have been:
in 1924, 15,470rS6K; in 1925, 59,961.-
90; in 1926, 26,S49.62.
Then about our livestock. In 1922
we had IL head of cattle; in 1928, 35
head; in 1924, 80 head; in 1926, 1873
head; and in 1926, 200 head. Of these
As are Red German milk cows weigh
ing on the average of 1000 pounds per
head and producing about 10000
pounds of milk year per head with
out up to date equipment. The out
look for the dairy business is very
good, therefore we have three year
plan of building a modern dairy barn
for two hundred milk cows. The
barn will be built in three sections.
In the future we intend to bring the
number of milk cows to 600 head or
more. Our cattle branch of the live
stock department brought us over
5000 rubles of net profit. Our nog
branch in 1923 consisted of 10 head;
in 1924 of 108 head; in 1925 of 244
head and in 1926, 1872 head. Most OF
these are pure bred English York
shires and are very profitable, net
tino last wear over $4,000 rubles. Of
sheep we have APO head, one half OF
which are Spanish Marine breed. The
twenty horses we have are used only
for light hauling and saddle, no field
work being done with them. OF
poultry we have a thousand head IN
all.
The Soviet.
The managing personnel is made of
seven members in the soviet and its
chairman, whose duties are those of
manager. Each department head
leads his department and also attends
all of the meetings Of the Soviet. The
Revision or Control Committee is
made up of three members who meet
once a month to audit all of the
books, they also attend the meetings
Of the soviet whenever possible. All
of the officials are elected at the
yearly meeting for one year terms.
Close records are kept of each de-
partment separately, and then of the
commune as a whole. All Of our of
ficial work is done by workers, we do
not have any intelligentsia with
higher education. We have tried to
keen our labor efficiency close up to
the American standard which ac-
counts for our rapid rise.
The Peasants Come.
For social life we have entertain
ments every Saturday night con-
sisting of plays, moving pictures,
radio, dancing and music by our own
band. The nelghboring peasantry at
tend these entertainments in great
numbers, making our place center
Of their social gatherings.
Big Government Farm.