GREAT WHEAT GROWER

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1930, Page 9

GREAT WHEAT GROWER

RUSSIA’S AMAZING POSSIBILITIES OF FUTURE HUGE STATE UNDERTAKINGS; VISIT PAID BY i -.. ' I x’j-.By Telegraph—Pre** Assn.— Copyright- ; New York, Dec. 19. ‘ Within the next' few years Russia will be by large'odds the greatest 'wheat pro+v ducer in the world. This news wa| brought - back from Russia by. Mr. Tais j.-. Campbell, who operates in*Montana th< largest’’ wheat farm in the world has ••twice visited" Russia' upon the tion .of the Soviet to show them the latesfl machinery and farming methods.. ' “Lassiire you,” Re said, “that the farmK J. ing situation there has undergone amazing change. .The State farms, for in.T ; stance, represent undertakings ? that art j simply - staggering and stupendous. Four - teen million ; peasant householdttß have,;; been enrolled as co-operatives, .pnder '* the Soviet vitation, and by February 20 this year* 206,000,000- acres, or 52per cent of the . arable land in the Soviet Union, had • been signed up. . Russia contains at least =• 250,000,000 acres of as good wheat land * / as there is on the earth, besides other lions of acres suitable for cotton, fruit and Vegetables. •'■ < ‘ “Communism is digging its own grave, In a dozen years there won’t be any Com* -,. munism but, with unlimited power, - limited land and resources which sre inex-. ; haustible Russia will develop into a com* mercial power of the .first magnitude. . " ■-■ , ESTIMATE .OF WORLD’S CROP. / ' ' RUSSIA’S ENORMOUS OUTPUT. ■■ • , - . ./->•■ ■■; ' ■,'•'*; - Rec. 5.5 p.m. New York,-Dec. .19. The Department of Agriculture has announced that the world wheat crops tms year will closely approximate 5,000,000,000 •; bushels. In countries other than China and Russia the estimated. world, crop totals 3,784,000,000 bushels. The Russian yield is estimated at 1,157,400,000 bushels and the Canadian. crop at 395,854,000 bushelc...