SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 27 July 1933, Page 15

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN RUSSIA.

TO TIIK EDITOR OF TIIB mr.SS Sir, —Soviet Russia has 26,000 scientific and technical workers engaged in 1233 experimental stations and laboratories for the study of farming. During the past three years more of these scientific stations have appeared in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics than existed in the whole world, during the first 75 years of scientific research into the domain of agriculture. The plant institute has collected 230,000 samples from all corners of the earth, and in this domain alone Olli institutions are yielding specimens capable of withstanding the climatic conditions in this vast area of country. The workers engaged in this important work, have the prevailing conditions of climate artificially produced in huge experimenting sheds and as a result of these scientific methods, the desert and Arctic regions, are sown with plant life capable of resisting the hot winds or winter conditions, etc., produced at the experimental stations. The aeroplane, introduced by worker scientists, is used in the sowing of seeds, and' the cross-breeding of different species with that of the droughtresistant plants, is another illustration of the Soviet's scientific methods, and the aeroplane is also extensively used by the 254 institutions working in the field of animal husbandry. Soviet Russia is rapidly being stocked with plant life, and even in those regions of extreme heat or cold, the successful research work in the artificially produced climates, bears witness to the forces of nature's being overcome by the inroads of science so necessary if mankind is to live the full and happy life.—Yours, etc., ACE. July 26, 1933.