Show RUSSIA IS NOW FACING BIG SURPLUS US OF GRAIN districts starving year ago now swamped with wheat moscow too much bread promises to be Rus bias dilemma in 1923 1023 from 1017 until 1922 19 2 bread was tile the inest precious thing in russia A farmer could trudge into moscow with a small sack ot of grain and trade it for a grand piano or anything which the hungry city dwellers had bad to offer now the same saine peasant could walk from one end of russia to the ther and excepting in a few isolated famine districts could not get a jacU nife tor for the same tack sack ot of graan it if the harvest of this year turns turn out is BS expected russia vi will III have a surplus of grata grala which could be 10 sold abroad prom from a country villi which feli less lesa than IS 18 months ago was clamoring tor for crusts russia lias has changed into a notion nation which promises within a few months to be swamped with wheat anil and rye at near certain communes that have been listed as fairline stricken rye fluur flour the staple ot of bread Is quoted nt at less than 23 5 cents cent S a rood which Is 30 IOu pounds lids at samara tile distinct where even avei I 1 cannibalism occurred among tile bt arving a year ago rye goes beggane nt at less than 40 cents a bushel in moscow transportation costs have made prices sO somewhat higher almost double tile reigning producing reducing regions in the great P price r ic e ablah siberia once the granary from n heat beat poured into w western estern europe did in last years harvest not fare so well and there alices pi ices are higher but in ode odessa and at kielt eff in the southern wheat belt recent official quotations so 70 cents a under bhoj wheat beat costing buthel bushel the soviet gover government ament through the rhe has rolled up a mi lection 0 of taxes grain reserve amounting to nearly bushels some ot of tills this Is needed to feed the army but as for the bulk of 0 the grain unless it can be exported tile the government does not know what to do with it |