Show emus in russia the soviet authorities have start ed a scheme meto to populate the steppes of russia with australian emus preliminary experiments in this diorec tion were begun under the first five year plan and they are now said to be satisfactory the emu having shown that it can withstand the cold winters of russia as far north as moscow the official report of the new scheme points out that the emu is a bird with edible flesh and that its eggs contain from to grammes of nutritious food for the moment however it Is intended not to eat the eggs but to use them for hatching and special incubators have hae been constructed |