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Show MOVIES SENT TO RUSSIA BY U. S. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 27 The U. S. Department of Agriculture has supplied to tho Committee on Public Information more than twonty motion pictures showing agricultural production, produc-tion, highway construction and forest work in this country, to be sent to Russia, at the request of the Russian Pritnorskoyo Provincial Zcmstvo, for use in depicting the advanced practices prac-tices in these activities in America. The Russian communication asking for the American motion pictures snys. in part: "Tho restoration of Russia as a powerful state on an economically sound absls can bo accomplished only by means of development of her productive pro-ductive powers. This, in turn, could be made possible only by application in every branch of economical activity activi-ty of the most modern machinery and methods of production. As the vast majority of our (people, especially of J the rural districts, are intellectually j not sufficiently prepared for tbe gen- J eral application of more advanced methods and modern machinery, a thoroughly organized propaganda of this is considered by the Zeratv6 as one of the most urgont needs of tho moment as an essential part 6f which it considers the moving picturo, showing various processes of industries indus-tries and agriculture, samples of var-i var-i ious machinery and implements for i their demonstration work, and so on. 1 All this wo cannot expect from any-1 any-1 where but from the United States. And !the sooner we could obtain these ma- terials, the greater would be their ser-, ser-, vice." The department of agriculture films! supplied for use in Russia include ihe following subjects: Cattle and sheep grazing on the national na-tional forests; lumbering yellow pine in tho southwest; lumbering lodgepole pine in the Arapahoe national forest; national forest as recreation grounds; watershed protection and tree planting on national forests; work of the for- ! ests-products laboratory; construction of a concrete silo; construction of a: wooden-hoop silo; co-operative cow-' testing: from wool to cloth; poultry production; Uncle Sam's pig-club work; co-operative berry growing in the Pacific Northwest; testing cement j and concrete for bridge building; construction con-struction of concrete, gravel and mac-. adnm roads; and testing rock for road j building. |