Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1930 — Page 16

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300.000-ACRE MODEL FARM IS SOVIET'SPRIDE Huge Show Place Entirely Mechanized: Built on American Lines. ThJ. U of a aerie* of article. hr Cumene Lrona on a trip through Ruosta. BY EUGENE LYONS, Totted Pres* Staff Correspondent VERBLYUD, Northern Caucasus, U. S. S. R., Dec. 17.—National fame has come to this wayside railroad station oddly named Verblyud— Russian for camel—which is the center of a huge state farm or government "bread factory.” It is the show place of Soviet agriculture, and has been described in endless newspaper and magazine articles. Glimpsed from the distance, the administrative and dwelling center of the 300,000-acre farm seems only another such mirage. This one. however, does not dissolve at close range. It reveals itself as a collection of modem two and three-story houses, set in correct rows like an American real estate development.” As in so many other of the most ambitious Soviet enterprises, we found the leading figure a young man. h. S. Margolin is 35 and looks (even younger, being of slight build, with thin features. 56.000 Acres Planted He said that this year the camel had a planted area of 56,000 acres; that In 1931 crops will be harvested from 180,000 acres; that thousands of students will be prepared to administrate other government farms or collectives. The most impressive feature is hot in statistics. To anyone who has had some contact with the traditional private farm in Russia the camel is an extraordinary thing. Instead of the leisurely labor of the ordinary peasant, we find here brisk, well-organized work by alert, clean-shaven-farmers; everything is 100 per cent mechanized. It might be somewhere in Kansas or Montana. Aided by American One can not help speculating fchat this mechanized giant will do to the million, of backward pygmies around it. Every so often a family of peasants passes on its cart drawn by oxen over the beautiful new roads of the camel. They stare with bewilderment at the strange tractors, drillers, combines which have arrived to disturb their ihousand-year old peace. Tine impression of Kansas or Monts;;:’ was heightened for us by

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There were "curves ahead” for motorists driving down one of the main thoroughfares of Miami, Fla., the other day. And wouldn't it have been pleasant to receive a summons from uniformly pretty "Officer” Jerry Allen?' She is pictured here as she stopped traffic just beautifully, after donning something less than full police regalia. She looks like she'd "cop” almost any prize for pulchritude. a cheerful greeting in accents distinctly mid-western. Professor E. J. Sternman is an American agricultural engineer who is helping the Soviets in its fanning schemes. He formerly was at the University of California. The outstanding achievement of the camel, according to Professor Sternman, is that it more than tripled the average yield as compared to private farms on exactly the same sort of soil here. * A school which lias 500 students this year and will have 1,000 next year is one of the chief features of the camel. Drawn from all parts of the union, these students will go back to direct mechanized farming in their own neighborhoods. Another feature is an experimental station, in which farming machinery of all foreign makes is tested. At, present American tractors lire v : .mate.

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