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Show Crops and Stock Thrive On Most Northerly Farm The Norilsk State farm, a Soviet agricultural enterprise, stands on the 70th parallel in the midst of a desert region, in the zone of eternal eter-nal frost. There the Arctic night lasts for nearly two months. There are frequent heavy buzzards, when the thermometer drops to 60 degrees de-grees below zero centigrade. Potatoes, cabbages, onions, carrots car-rots and sugar beets are grown successfully in the open fields of this Arctic farm. Tomatoes, cucumbers cu-cumbers and spinach are raised in 28 hot-houses. An experimental sowing of melons has yielded encouraging en-couraging results. Livestock thrives on the farm, and is rapidly increasing in number. num-ber. There are 133 cows, all born in this Arctic region. A subsidiary farm houses 200 pigs of pure Yorkshire York-shire breed. |