FARMING IN RUSSIA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21880, 16 August 1934, Page 15

FARMING IN RUSSIA

Sir, —1 wish to comment on the address to the Lyceum Club given by Mrs. A. G. Talbot as reported in the Hkkald of August 10. While stating that remarkable progress had been made in the Soviet Union, Mrs. Talbot considered that the farmers had been neglected, and the potentialities of plant and animal life unrealised. The July issue of "Facts About the Soviet. Union" states that this season 230,000,000 acres had been sown in grain, an increase over last year of 25,000,000 acres The Moscow News of June 16 states that the machinetractor stations now established throughout the Union are responsible for 48 per cent of this acreage. In the far North, at Khibinogorsk, the world's largest phosphate industry has been established. A recent copy of "U.S.S.R. in Construction" in our public library gave photographic evidence that the work of Burbank is being ably developed by the Institute of Plant Research under the direction of M. Miehurin, the Soviet Burbank. Mrs. Talbot states that long hours are the rule in the Soviet Union. That the Soviet workers are all busily engaged the world knows. Less well known is the Labour Code, which limits hours of work per day to seven, and less in mines and chemical works. R. J. Cameron.