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Show RUSSIAN FARMERS HAIL AMERICN CORN SAMARIA. May 13. American Corn, which, as a result of American j purtlripation in Russian famine re-1 ; lief Is io be sown this spring for tho I i first time, in many partw of tho fo!-' fo!-' ga valley, is hailed by eovlet ngrl-cultural ngrl-cultural propagandists as "the giant , grain " destined to save tho valley from further fears of famine. "KokukrUlha.',' as the Russians call Indian corn, is lauded poetically In full-pnge newspaper appeals to the peasants to sow it Methods of cultivation cul-tivation aro explained and tho papers pa-pers picture fields of msjse higher than a man's head, likely to be secured se-cured from corn oven at a period when drought would kill wheat and The meter of tho Russian poems in :h! rorn campaign sounds strangely Of an American Indian son?. Us of Indian corn has been gen- " sMklH era! in some parts of the Ukraine and even In a small area of the Volga alley lor a number of years, so It is not totally unknown to the Russian peasant. Tho variety of the grain imported for sowing" in the Volga valley may be planted as late as Miy 15 and will mature In time for a har-j har-j vest before the last killing frost |