SOVIET HOPES
\ “BUMPER” HARVEST MOSCOW, July 7. Ofiiciul circles express great hope ('.it tills year's ’earvest. t’nless tie wmit her is quite unfavorable, the niuit crop is uo'.v expected to be big. In I<J3;5 the harvest was enormous iiu; one-third., was wasted owing- ii Jack of organisation and the weakened condition of the peasants. fa 1931! the harvest was rat her be lots average, yet between 2f> and 41 million acres of wheat, cut in July were still lying in the fields toward.the end of (September. This year will therefore, be a rest ease for collet 1 1 vised agriculture in the harvesting of a big crop without undue wastage. While "Russia remains as short as ever of draught animals (nO per cent of working horses have disappeared since 1929), new harvesting machinery is steadily being sent to the land to replace them. ‘Collective and State farms are said to have received this year 21,000 new combined harvesters and 99,000 more tractors.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 10
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