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Russia, Buying 10000 Tractors, Turns To Power Farming
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. Left Top,' Fordcoa Tractors for RumU lined wp at thm Ford Motor Company River Root plant for final laapoetioa jast Wforo boiar boxed; below
i rtonrilling Russia address on box. Centar Top, vnloadiac Ford ton Tractors at a RossUv seaport; below, trainload of Fordsoss loarinc Detroit for New
York to be transferred aboard ship. Ribt Top, Russian villagers out to see aew(y arrived Ford sons; below,- tractor irun-g camel oa Russian farm.
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'he boondcies of the empire are
ln&tkfdijbr-sJtbe ; sword. but the
f oaftdartld tf the empire Is Uld in
a jUtf fnrrow- Op two occasions
In YSeastdefeidethe ; simple
truth of this' ancient aJ4ge '' has
been strikingly 'demonstrated ! in
Eufepeand twic in America has
beeraTled' upon, to I iguratlyeiy.
at Ifasl 'pall Europe's plow. The
firajy jpt;asIon was k in answer J. to
the well remembered warning,
"produce more food to win the
irar, which" 'echoed Ground 5 the
world In the stirring days of 1917.
The, other , is. still , alore inwew
beadiies Ihtf effort Jjeing made
"by ,4laia , ib establish upon . Its
rast expanse of fertile land, the
foundation of its republic. . ,
Of "the tworprobaWy the first
was the more dramatic, for it has
as a bqckgronnd the awfnl splen
dor of the world war. England.
f tgr Jthree months of fighting on
avaupu uf tatttlef rents was gradu
ally reaching a point of famine be
caiae uMirg' BTrtmrarine blockade
which had cut the British Isles
off from their pr&cipal sources of
food supply.: Under, the urge of
necessity, extensive ;-estates and
other non-prod uctl're .lands were
put under cnltiratlon and at about
the same time that America dis
patched the vaiigvar4rfof Its
doughboys to France. 50O:O Ford
son tractors were purchased ' by
the British Ministry; of Munitions.
After safely running through the
submarine blockade, the Fordsons
were landed and consigned to
farms all over the (BritishvYsles.
There they "fought" through' the
closing years of the war; to feed
the nation behind the mett'behliSd Fractfe, J0,0BvFordsonTwereT8l- intemat combustion engine! eyer
the guns.
j Among the nations of the earth
probably none Is potentially richer
agriculturally, that he states that
make up the , Russian Republic,
yast areas of soil, too extensive to
he easily comprehended, are ideal
ly suited to raising , essential
grains. During 5 the reign of the
Romanoffs. Russia was known as
the ' granery rot the world, even
despite the fact that heavy-footed
oxen and even camels provided the
farm power." Since the overthrow
of the monarchy, this fertile land
produced little If any grain for ex
port when the first tractors began
jto make their - appearance. Pea
; Bants tilled the soil In tiny patches
to supply their own needs, "j
Upon this sceneV' of economic
waste entelrs the ''made in' De
troit" 'FtfrdsOn tractor. In the
i rich wheat lands of the Ukraine.
In the shadow of the Caucausus
range, along the i romantic Volga
.or in seemingly limitless Siberia,
! thousands 4 of tfte tractors are
opeaing furrows and hundreds of
thousands of acres are being
planted to crops for the tlrst time.
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Naturally, such a tremendous
enterprise manifests Itself in de
velopments of bulge': proportions.
An "example is the order just fil
led ' by the Ford kfbtor company
for a shipment of 10.000 Fordson
tractors- to Russia, by far the
greatest single tractor order ever
placed, representing extensive ex
periment by the j Soviet govern
ment and the decision Of the In
terests; behind the promotion of
agriculture to standardize on this
type of equipment.
The! 10.000 tractors were pro
duced at the'Rtyer Rouge plant of
the Ford Motor company in ap
proximately sevenweeks, in addi
tion to the production quota for
domestic absorption. Tireless
cranes worked unceasingly loading
the crated tractors on freight cars
which I rumbled out of the River
Rouge! plant In a j seemingly end
less stream for the coast,,. Sten
cilled on the sides of the crates
were the names of such destina
tions ta excite the: imagination as
Vladivostok, Kovorossisk, Odessa.
Moscow, Leningrad or Pekorvsky.
Dozens of ships, ! laden to the
waterline with, Fordsons. ,arre sUl
carrying the ''made In II. 's. JkJ'
stencil into Russian7 ports "on the
Baltic, and Black seas and the Sea
of "Japan, pouring tractors into
Russia to complete the shipment:
To one whose conception of
farming is drawn from the middle
west of the United States, or even
the less densly populated South 'or'
far west, 10,000 tracers'; might
seem enough to put taJ Russia
under cultivation. As a matter of
ready In use in the Soviet Repub
lic when the: latest order "was
placed, al having been purchased
in the past three years. Yet this
imposing array of tractors ihas
been scattered over such a vast
expanse of territory that the Ford
novelty and Its appearance in a
community is a signal for a pub
lic demonstration. An idea of the
magnitude of the area into which
these tractors are going may be
gained from the fact that after
leaving the railroad, some of these
tractors are gladly driven by the
purchaser two or three hundred
miles to the village where they are
to be put to work.
Schools, In which an intensive
practical course in tractor opera
tion and maintenance is given,
have been opened in the agricul
tural centers of population. Each
prospective operator must learn
all about the Fordson and the ad
justments which may be necessary
on the Job. The Soviet govern
ment, appreciating the importance
of realizing the maximum effici
ency from every tractor has issued
performance cards with each ma
chine land each operator is re
quired to keep accurate check on
the amount of his day's work. If
his record indicates' that he is ob
talng the greatest possible amount
of service from the tractor, he Is
Issued 'the requisite fuel and oil.
counth roseac icustme twith Ol c
Operating a Fordson, however,
is "carcely regarded as a "Job" -In
the interior of Soviot Russia, j In
the majority of instances,, these
tractors are the first examples of
seen. , With the ! automobile un
known, operating a . tractor, aa
sumes the role of a highly, prized
privilege and "driving" It to and
from the field of operation is an
experience of pleasure which may
scarcely be appreciated by Amer
icans. ,
The American farmer, even a
decade of power farming exper
ience behind him, may profit by
the study of tractors made by the
Soviet. In specifying equipment,
blanket instructions were issued
to provide each; tractor with fen
ders and belt pulley. The fenders
are so equipped as to carry con
veniently all tool necessary to
make minor adjustments together
with a supply of small essential
parts to make possible minor re
pairs righ In the .field. For, in
Russia when operating possibly
1000 miles from the Soviet
equivalent of a service station,
laying up a tractor In the rush
period to await a service mechanic
for small but necessary adjust
ment or repair is. highly imprac
tical. ; , .
Threshing and the grain har
vesting operations as well as wood
sawing and the" numerous other
essential farm Jobs requiring belt
power may all be done through
the medium of this single unit.
' Russia's return, to the soil for
a foundation on which to build
for world prominence assumes es
pecial significance through the
purchase of these tractors. Gener
ations of advancement have been
covered in a single stride; camels
and oxen which yesterday pulled
the plow, today see the most
moaern development In power
farming multiplying their achieve
ments. And Russia's move to re
gain her position of "granary of
the world" is not likely to go un
noticed by other agricultural na
tions ef the world.
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Touring
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Erect Small Church After
Vow in Napoleon's Day
,CRESCO, Iowa A vow, given
at the time Napoleon was conduct
ing his Russian campaign, eventu
ally resulted in the erection here
of one of the smallest churches in
the world.
The mother of John Gaertner, a
French explorer, who was with Na
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Moscow, vowed that if God would
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result was the building in 1885 of
St. Anthony's Catholic chapel.
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rock. It is 11 feet wide and 17
feet long. It has four stained
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main altar and two side altars.
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