Show Huge Export of Wheat by Russia Predicted Country Will Ship 1200 Bushels j v J 7 I In 1933 Expert Says 1 American Reviews Enormous 1 Development Plans I of Soviet I i 1 By Dr DR FRANK K United United r Press Science nce Correspondent WASHINGTON Jan 9 UP UP TrIO Two o hundred million bushels of pf wheat will be 00 exported from Russia In IP 19 ir St the year five ear plan holds up acv a.- to prophecy made mode by Dr cording a j C C. C. C F F. Marbut of or the United Stat States s agriculture department in a a- report aport port prepared for the Geographical Rei Re Re- i view Dr Marbut chic chief of t the he departments department's depart- depart ments ment's division of ot soil soU surveys SUf surveys re- re extended tenth Gently returned from an scientific journey in to Russia where he attended the tho second international soil soll science con congress at Leningrad and nd Moscow He took a leading part partin partI I in the first con congress ess held at Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington in 1927 In his survey suney of ot the wheat producing inc ing possibilities of Russia and th the United states Stales Dr Marbut points out many mony Important advantages ad enjoyed by the former i f The potential wheat producing acreage e in Russia is 15 much greater f than that of the United States Russia Rus Rus- r sia sla has more moro than acres of first quality wheat land as comI compared com corn I pared with acres in this thi country Of second quality wheat wheatland land Russia has nearly 1 about 13 with acres as i acres In this count country Russia also has some advantages t in tn transportation facilities In this country the great grain belt In the plains states is remote from tidewater ports and lacks Jacks navigable rivers so SOl that all aU Its wheat has to be hauled long lon distances by rail The part of the Russian grain belt on the contrary runs dI- dI di to the Black sea and ana is 15 crossed rd or bordered by three la large larse e navigable rivers The wheat zone ic is Asiatic Russia however and is 15 not so favorably favorably favor o ably situated There Is a basic similarity between the soil types that are best for whet t in the two countries The first qua quai- quality ity wheat soil soli whether in western America or in southern Russia is ts a adeep adeep adeep deep black earth carth known the world over by a a. Russian name cherno chemo zem Second quality wheat soil Is lighter In color and bears the EnJI English h name chestnut or chestnut brown I The Russian wheat zone Is about miles wide extending eastward from the Rumanian border to the region re region re- re gion of Lake Baikal though the best of It stops considerably to the westward westward westward west west- ward in the valley of the Ob river The American wheat belt begins In northern Texas and runs to the th Canadian line whence it continues continue far up the map under the Canadian fla flag Vh Whereas reas the rest of ot the world al already already already al- al ready has put most of its po possible wheat acreage Into actual cultivation Russia has vast land reserves that have ha never ne known the plow It Is this coupled with the grandiose schemes for farms as bI big as whole co counties that is causing causin uneasiness amon among tho agricultural economists n atthe at atthe the 1 present resent time |