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Show AMERICAN CORN IS HAILED BY SOVIET I S MA It A, Mav 12 American corn. which, as a result of American par-.tlcipatl.m par-.tlcipatl.m in Uufsirm famine relief la I to be sown this spring for the first : time In many pons of lh Volga, valley, ; is hailed hv aovlet a rrl('u It urn I prnpg-icandisis prnpg-icandisis as "the Riant grain" destined to savs the valley from further fera I of famine. 1 Kokukrnzlia," ns tlie Tluastana rail Indian corn, la lauded poetically In full pane Itlnstrat. d newspaper Rppa.la to , the pi a an tils to sow it. Methods of , cult ivatlon are explained and the pa-peiat pa-peiat iMiture fields of maize higher I thnn a mans head, likely to b aecured ; from com even at a period when tlrotiRMt would kill w heat and rye The meter of the Russian poema in this com campaign sound strangely like thst of i,n American Indian song. I I'se of Indian corn has heen general , in some parte of iho Ckralne nnd even , in a small ar.-a of the Volga vally for n number of eara. in It la not toiallv unknown to the It u avian pesaV. nut. The variety of the Kraln Im-fitted Im-fitted ftr sowing In ihe VMga valley i mav be planted us late aa May 1 r and will mature in time for a harvest ba-fore ba-fore the last killing froat. |