The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-04
Triumph Of Socialist
Agriculture

sid III years TO increase Cu6 culCI-
waited area by Is million hectares.
Wherein les the secret of this
Bolshevik tempo? 1t does not
take long to find the secret. It is
to be found in the very system of
Soviet economy, organized ac-
cording to a uniform plan, in the
fact that in collective and state
farms the most simple implements
are used much more nationally
than on small private farms. "The
simple collection of ordinary peas
ant implements inside collective
FARMS" says Stain. "haS given
results such as our farm experts
could not even dream Of"
While some four-five years ago,
the kulaks gave a considerable
part of their farm products for
the market, the share Of kulak
products on the market today has
A per cent.
The state and collective farms
are now the chief producers of
farm products consumed by the
population and industry. In other
words, the collective farmer has
already become the central figure
in agriculture. The socialist branch
of agriculture has taken the up
per hand in the Soviet Union.
What does this mean? It means
that the collective farmer consti-
tutes now the true support of the
Party and the Soviet government
in the village. He fully supports
the Party and its measures, hav-
ing learned by his own experience
and seen with his own eyes that
the road to the further develop
ment of our national economy as a
whole, of our material and cultur-
al well being, through state and
collective farming.
Socialist industry, which is be-
coming more powerful every day,
forms strong base for the So
cialist transformation of agricul-
ture in this country. Tsarist Rus
STA practically knew nothing of ag-
ricultural machinery. But the
Soviet Union today is about to
occupy first place in the world ir
the production of such machinery
The tractor giants of StalingraC
and Kharkov the agricultural ma
chine factories of Rostov, the com
. bine factory in Zaporozhe, al
these products of the Soviet RS
gime are most reliable levers il
the cons 3lidation of the state anC
collective farms. While the trac
tor ard combine in capitalist coun
; tries lis accessible only to an in
significant number of, big LAM
: owners, in the Soviet Union the,
can be acquired by the poorest o
peasants organized in COLLECTIVE
: farms.
T This is strikingly illustrated b
Q the work of the machine and traC
! tor station which ploughed up las
Il spring about 20 million hectare
: of collective farm land, being
: million hectares above their pre-
! gram. The important organizin
: power of the machine and tracto
l stations is borne out by the faC
that the collective farms in dis
: tricts where machine and tractC
n stations exist have better organ
IT cation of labor and a better sy'
o tenn of work than those of othe
n districts. The machine and ira,
u tor stations bring to the collectiV
u farms the most modern techniqu
y and the poor peasant of yesterda
E who could at best use the hori
n plough, is now driving a tracto
~ Of course this does not mes
re that the horse and the implemen
}, that go along with it are no lonI
Oh er needed in those areas. But Il
m very fact that the horse is no
C. used together with the tract
IN shows that the productive fore
as of the Soviet Union have enorr
Il ously risen.
ne The year since the 18th annive
ed sary has been year of contin
te Gus growth and consolidation
" the state and collective farms
It's the Union. But no less comp
on Gated and no less serious probleT
s; stand ahead, and the Party
s. mobilizing the attention of