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Show AFRICANS TILL HUGE FARM AREA OMEOJPIT Twenty-one Tractors Used by Colony in Pioneering; Agricultural Lessons Are Given Their Neighbors WERETSCHAGINA. Russia (By Mall to United Preaa.) Hera In tha Ural, on a atretch of land covering fifteen fif-teen thousand deasatlnaa (approximately (approxi-mately forty-five thousand acres) twenty Americana, Including alevaa mechanlclana, ara today performing pioneer work which aoma day will serve aa a model for Ruaala'a entire agricultural system. With twenty-one tractors, tha amall American colony An working hard o till as much land for this (all's sowing aa possible. In shifts, they ax work ing around the clock eighteen hours ploughing, four hours theoretical and two hours practical lessons for tha neighboring farmers. Tha practical lessons ara being performed per-formed on the farmera land. In order to create a favorable feeling amongst the farmera, who are Inclined to re-ward re-ward these pioneers as enemiee. Thla atretch of land represents a fraction of the area owned by tha soviet state which holds about a total area of a per rent of tha total Rua-rlan Rua-rlan agricultural land. FORMER CZARIST FARMERS. In olden times these farm belonged! to tha czarlst sdmlnistration, which In turn gave control to owners of large Industrial planta for the purpose of feeding the Industrial workera of mlnea and planta located nearby. Thla particular atretch of land, for Instance, always hae been attached to the "Klesel Kope," a coat mine, which employs even today 24.0(H) workmen. Thla model farm la on tha name level and offers the same conditions a Texas. In order to secure the feeding; of Its large number of workmen, the management man-agement of the Klesel mine proposed to the American colony to go there and form a joint company. As a consequences conse-quences a company has been formed between be-tween the Klesel mine, the "first tractor trac-tor bnsls" of American workmen, and a nearby superphosphate factory, formerly for-merly owned by Prince Jussupoff, on of Russia's richest men. LAND LEASED FREE. Th government leased to th com pany this stretch of land on. a ten years contract, free of charge outaid th regular natural tax. Th mln provides all th required material for th electrification of th whole area, th ben line, th naptha and th transportation. Th supe-phoaphate supe-phoaphate factory distribute entire production. Today the Russian peasant uses artificial ar-tificial fertiliser very rarely and in small quantities. On of th main purpose of th factory is to tnako propaganda for tha consumption or artificial fertiliser. Tha ultimata aim. of this company la to till all the 16.000 deeaatlnes. which are needed to feed the 24.000 workmen of tha coal mine and the equal expected expect-ed number of factory workers, btxty tractors are needed to till lha 15 000 deasatlnea owned by tha company. To tranaport the tractors a complete roa4 had to ha built along the seventy werst from tha railway station to tha farm (rounda. The American workmen receive t. a day wagea. while tha Russian WoYR-men WoYR-men are contended with lO.OVO.ODO rubles, or about $2.0 per day. |