The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-21
o7TRCONE DIFFICULTIES In
ISSR SPRING SOWING DRIVE
ny vERN SMITH

.aacC0W. June
: aOSoT Hoen successfully complet,
as has 9 Tbe Tartar Republic bic had az
Union 1000 90 900 acres by May %,
soEed y about $4,000 acres more
Ehieh, Is ever been planted here.
thsn nS .. for the crops are very
soed' ,r...ern Siberia, at the same me
n "s Yo had been 19,75O,OOO
dst. 'a ae~n, over 100000 of
'5 ;:, s.. s1" in wheat. This is more
.hieA, $1,000 s51 acres more than was
than s ss''a wear ago. The new
plan 1;.,a ~ sowing of the collective
q'alltS a " the sufficiency of mOis-
s5saS r I'll the ground, promise an
t gre ~ harvest for Siberia;
abInoal shIa weather conditions
FsT SaIneJ the Leningrad district
pase .I n''P Although previously the
gFsa'yI., products of this re
sg"S ,usre very limited in quantity
s goa s'' Of drought. this year the
oecars, has Ia been considerably ex.
'onlng by VT the blowing of new sol
tencso vas ~ formerly uncultivated
snlI Nav 25, this district had so we.
By g.. M s2o acres of grain, includlnt
ZOo 40. times more wheat than las
t tl.'e s and a total which had d, for or
y .ssl, not not been planted in all tn
no patatoes planted in the Lem Lee IN
S;strict have increased 92,SU
gISS IN comparison with las
'so- Fifty thousand acres NOR
y s'' o,arden vege' ables were also
= than last year. The cor
gisi Of sowing in the Lenin
s I'D district promise abundar
crops. :.
h almost all districts. Sovlt
Union farm collectives continue
s6w. above the amount required b
n. Five Year Plan, into the lat
simmer hardened crops like mai
etc.
Prepare for Harvest
Al the same time the souther
districts of the U.S.S.R.. are pr
eeeding with active preparation
for harvest of the early crop
Warm weather in all territorie
following an abundant rainfs
have fastened development of t
winter and summer sowing in Il
majority of districts.
Even those southern distriC
where sowing, mostly of white
crops, have suffered partial dal
ages, owing to dry weather, nj
sowing is satisfactory.
The advantages of the kolh,
system have been shown repeate
". Whatever couldn't be owe
come in individual farming cas-
such as manifestations of the e
ments and nature, have been 81
cessfullv overcome by collectiV
farmers.
4 part of the damaged sow
has been resown, in some pla'
even to an extended = volume.
the majority of the places VIII
d have been affected by the N
drought the collectives aver
damage to their crops. They
ganized timely mass weedin of
. gain fields, measures which
never been adopted before |
year, and with which individI
farmers, Of course, could not CO
In many places kOlhOzes even
l.. stored to mass artificial water
Of the fields. Such measures g
are only thinkable under collect
mechanical farming. For
early sowing, in which much m,
ture was preserved in the S
from snow, was properly CONT
/ ted by the kOlhozes (collect
farms) BY the method of re-wC
ing the fields with tractors.
The result of all this, even
the drought districts, after
rainfall, is that the condition
sowing has been considerably
proved. Throughout the south
the Soviet Union winter rye
Towering, and wheat in places
already earring. Summer SOW
iS'also developing we'll even in
central districts Of the USSR,
~ III |nQ (ne OraiS.
3: At a rally of representative.
kolhozes devoted to the forthc
ing harvest, held at Dniepro
NySk, in the Ukraine, an ap
= vas made to the kolhozes, stat
sowing in our kolhozes is oh
ing, and strong in promise, a
THIS was a dry spring. Sowin
N good condition because we
SOwed early, plowed the soil '
weH.timed, sowed good grain,
sOwed collectively. If such a
spring as we have had come in
ume when We. lived on indivi
scattered farms, sowing W
nav. nave looked sorry. Under co
i've forms of farming we ex
q good harvest"