Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 8 | Crop Outlook in Russia is Best Im Many Years

cnop outlook in i: RUSSIA IS BEST , looyyEifis J. . Timely Rains at Spring Planting Followed by Good Growing Weather Insure Greet H arrest M08COW, Aug. I Mother Kahira appear to ba trying to make up to Russia for what h did to bar last year. Accurate Mtlmate of the (Tain ' rop of If 11 tlU are lacking, but from . nearly every province report pour In ; to Moacow that not In many year bare ucb growing crop baea aeon. When rain war neded tliey cam ' thl spring In a profueloa that mad 1 for last year drouth. When sun-hfn sun-hfn was neceaaary It waa on hand. Ualees aome unprecedented weather condition develop between now and th tlm of the harvest, practically very bushel of seed that wa planted beat autumn and thl aprlng eeems aura to bear fruit. Bye In fields higher than a man' bead, th ear fairly drooping with kernel, are waving and browning throughout th Volga and central Run-la. Run-la. whll tb wheat la coming up In good ahap In Siberia, and the Ukraine. Uk-raine. Potatoes and other vegetable ara flourishing.- Cattls which lonkea Ilk skeleton In th winter are fatten Ing oa rich green pasture land. In aome locallllee atricken last year by th drouth an unuaual phenomenon! has been noticed. Grain sown In the prlng of 1111, which failed to sprout at all last summer he com up thl year to swell the small sowings whir ware available In tha opting of ma. In other plaeea, where the grain was ao hort and undeveloped last autumn aa ba unworthy of harvesting, tneaa dwarf planta dropped their seed and this, too, has sprouted under tb rain aa4 aunahlne. . Ueneraily aneaklng th ground seams ta have gained strength during th famine year, and th rich natrata which a big ltl crop would have liauated were left In th oil to fatten tha kernel and trengtba tha (talk of thla summer's grain. : Tba area sown this year per hap war leea than last In many province, but tha crop Itself 1 so good that tha yield la expected to ba more than three and a half billion pood of grain for all Russia, a billion mora than last year. (A pood la I pounds). If the aurplua of fruitful regions ' ran ba transported to tha cltlea and tha non-produotlve localities, and If 1 th peasant do not board It. Ruaalan official xpra th conviction that. 1 fx mine will b practically dead and that after October full atomacha will aucceM hunger for aaoet of Russia s population. J