SOWING BY AEROPLANE
Advices from Soviet Russ;a sh w that airplane sowing on a large sc:le has started in the Central Asia, NoL'h Caucasus and Upper and Middle Vo ia regions. This spring more than 75 1,000 acres will be sown from the o r, according to pr.esent plans — an a: ea ivvc timos as great as that so treai -1 last year. Wheat, rice and other cropi w 11 thus be sown. Two hundred lancs have been mobilised for the work. With a new sowing device, tlie invenfiion of a Soviet engineer, each 'plane can '-ieed from 40 to 50 acxes an hour. Another Russian air innovation of interest hia.s been recorded by the Moscovv Daily News. This is an airplane post office, operated like a railwav mail car. It ds already iO) ser-vic-o, the joumal says, between Moseow and Kharkov. Letters are irted in'the' air, pouched in the 'plar> , and then dropped at destination.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 566, 24 June 1933, Page 6
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156SOWING BY AEROPLANE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 566, 24 June 1933, Page 6
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