RAPID PROGRESS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 443, 26 May 1937, Page 5

RAPID PROGRESS

Farming In Russia Press Association —Copyright Auckland, M.'ay 26. The rapid progress being made in Russia under the collective farming programme to increase the numbers of live stock, particularly sheep, was Rationed in an interview with Mr. F. Lee, of Palmerston North, who arrived in the Remuera. Mr. Lee v as engaged under the supervision of the Soviet Commissarilat of Agriculture for about a year in installing sheep-shearing machines in collective farms near Moscow. During 1929 and 1930 stock was. slaughtered. 1 wholesale by Kulack, or capitalist farmery, when, with the development of collectivism they found they were losing their land, said Mr Lee Since then, however, every effort had been made, attended with amazing success, to build up herds. Sheep breeding way being given special attention, and before long that industry must become a powerful force. Tli.?re was v n.;- about 2 per cent of the farmers in the Soviet Union, representing about 000 peasants, not engaged m ('elective or State farming. Under the collective system farmers could share the use of tractors and ether scientific devices, which the individual farmer was ’ affordl Co .operation mein at greater prosperity, and he described the system as the world’s greatest farming scheme. There was no unemployment in Russia, which way producing the whole of her own consumers’ needs.