FELL DOWN.
London, Sept. 10. ■The grain collections in R tssia during July and August were 50 per cent, below the estimates, reports the Moscow correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian.” The area sown up to September 1 was 8,500,000 acres lower than last year, although the Five Year Plan demands an increase in, the acreage of winter crops. The newspapers blame local officials, declaring that the failure was inexcusable, as the grain collection demands had been reduced, compared with last year, while the harvest was better.
Frequent stoppages of tractors, the utilisation of horses, and a failure promptly to repair implements, caused slow sowing. The trouble was aggravated by a reduction of the Soviet output of hew tractors, owing to a lack of radiators. The Leningrad factory producing the necessary copper parts consistently supplied paits unsuitable, and of varying thickness, with the result that the daily tractor production figures were misleading, as many of the tractors were without radiators.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10921, 22 September 1932, Page 4
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159FELL DOWN. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10921, 22 September 1932, Page 4
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