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Li v Ukraine and northern Caucasus, it is - " meems to be in a chaotic condition, 3 2 'which is reported to have cost the certain sections of the said, nearly 47 cent. of winter sow- dngs was ruined by frost. Moreover, it didn't help matters, ac- cording to this journal, when the col- lective farms did not reach what was expected of them at harvest time. Bcolding the collective farmers, this agricultural authority advises us that: "The {information received from various provinces shows that in some places the harvested grain is not bound into sheaves, and so a great deal of it rots. Again, the wheat is transported so carelessly that much of it leaks out and is lost along the roads "Worse still is the fact that the grain is left to lie in the fields. There are but a few days during which it can be saved, But some of the collective farms have not even begun to stir in a order to save it." Gathering the grain from collective 'farms, too, other Soviet newspapers in- form us, has been beset with difficul- ties. Instead of surrendering to the State all grain in excess of the quantity re- quired for their own needs, to receive in h factured products from the State, the collective farmers are charged with "hoarding and hid- ing grain." By way of explanation, the official organ oi the Central Com- mittee of the Communist party in Mos- cow, Pravda, has this to say: "A great majority of the peasants on collective farms still are moved by the old, petty bourgeois psychology of ithe little individual proprietor. What is the cause of all this upset and de- lay in harvesting, of the hiding and hoarding of the grain by collective farmers, of their secret splitting up of grain®surpluses to be surrendered to the State and, above all, of the bad or- ization of pred on these farms? Obviously, the cause of it is the bourgeols methods 'which have found their way into the collective farming." That Russia has fallen behind its tion oo a : 0 wheat: that was brought in from the Old World. No potatoes: those came from South America by way of Europe. - ' Although the Department of Agri- culture had no explorers of it own until 1898, American in foreign lands, 1870, for. instance, an American mis- slonary in Brazil wrote to the depart- ment extolling the delicious oranges being grown in that country. A first shipment of trees was made, but they all died because of improper They tried again, and at last got 12 trees In good condition, replanted them--and thereby started the Wash-| ington naval orange industry. The av- 1s $35,000,000, In order to understand what is now back yard and saw a stranger, in queer foreign garb, down on his haunches, studying, with apparently fascinated interest, your radish plants, Just so strange and incomprehensible does the plant explorer often seem to the people in whose back yards he must seek out new plants for you to grow. For frequently he is likely to bring back a plant that is as common to those who are growing it as the radish is to you. For example, in what remote wilder- ness do you think the late Frank N. Meyer discovered the wild Chinese peach tree? He found it in the garden of the German legation in Peking! It was so 1 that nobody had ever thought of it before as being worth a second glance. Meyer was perhaps the most color- ful and certainly one of the most use- ful explorers who -ever- served the United States government, The great- er part of his adult life was spent prowling around in the far, wild cor- ners of the earth, seeking rare and strange plants. His first work of importance was schedule for gathering-grains from the collective farms, and that the comple- tion of the Soviet fall-sowing plan ap- pears unlikely, is reported by the De- partment of Agriculture at Washing- ton in a summary of foréign crops and markets. In a United Press dispatch from that city, we read: "Commenting on the Russian situa- tion, which has been regarded as an important factor in the recent rise in wheat prices, the department said Rus- slan fall sowing now amounted to 87, 461,000. acres. "This is 82 per cent, of the original plan for fall sowings and 87 per cent. of the total winter acreage last year. "The report, based on information from the American agricultural at- tache at Berlin, said the Russian pro- curings to October 26 were G4 per cent. of the yearly plan and 39 per cent. of the monthly plan." An interesting point on Russian wheat production is noted in the New York "Herald Tribune by Hickman Price, Jr, after a recent extensive tour of Russia to study economic condl- tions. He observes: "Even if the peasants, the rawest type of labor, can learn in a few years the intelligent use and proper care of machinery, which it has taken the American farmer three generations to learn, it is still doubtfnl if over a period of years Russian wheat produc- tion can be profitably conducted with the use of foreign-bought machinery. "A highly important phase of Rus- alan mechanized agriculture is the pro- duction of its own machinery. and im- plements. At the present time Rus- sian tractor and implement production _ "Avcording to the Pravado, The Fordson tractor factory at Leningrad, the introduction of Chi P mons in 1905. Studying them, he ex- plored the provinces of Shantung, Shensi, Honan and Chekiang, finally succeeding In importing live scions from the Ming Tombs region north. west of Peking. If you are ome of those persons who turn up their noses at Persimmons, you should try a Tam- opan persimmqn with a little cream for breakfast some day. This is the variety that Meyer brought in. sunny region of California and Souther Arizona. ; ' erage annual value of this crop now , A TH PMI of Valley able appearance. skilled workmen, must be kept constantly available for just "Whew! What a gale. There will be trouble on the line tonigh the Bell Telephone staff was. right--there was trouble and plenty of it, especially up around Pembroke when the icy blast from the Laurentians swept down across the Ottawa giving warning to all that King Winter was again holding court. All through the night and during the next day the forces of the Bell Telephone Com- pany battled the storm which had covered the wires with ice and snapped telephone poles e pipe stems. = True, by the following night many of the poles were still down but the service continued practically without interruption by means of emergency cable and the tangled wires and broken poles were rapidly being restored to their usual trim, service- Thousands of dollars worth of expensive equipment, and scores of soocrscisd ed t!" Lineman Taylor such emergencies in order that the universal service of the Bell Telephone Company may be available to all at all = Turning next to peaches, Meyer here Egypt are now grown to the extent Sneoumtared dis dre yal Suuble, his of about 750,000 acres in regions where uel of wits w @ Chinese, Up rainfall is low; from Russion comes In the little village of Fel, in Shan- the Swedish Select and Sixty-Day Oats tung province, they grew an extreme- now being grown to the extent of 4, ly large and luscious peach, often | 000,000 and 5,000,000 acres, respec. weighing as much as a pound. But tively. Acala cotton, found in Mexico, Fel was the only place where these 'has been developed into a variety peaches grew, and the inhabitanks which is the foundation of the cotton therefore had a very comfortable and industry of the Southwest; its annual pradishle oHopaly in the Shantung | production reaches a value of $50,000, mar they didn't take at all 000. kindly to Meyer's attempts to buy al Of all the plants which reach this few trees to take away with him, country comparatively few prove good He argued and pleaded. Finally a' enough, after thorough tests, to go native grower offered to sell him his to the trade. And the stories of the orchard, There seemed no other way explorers who found them somewhere Jo set trees. But when they reached across the globe are, in all probability, country, and were replanted and lost. developed it was found that they were| But the explorer who achieves honor not the true Fei peaches after all! {in the eyes of his fellow plantsmen The natives won that skirmish, but is well rewarded, for he receives the the government {is still after Fel Frank N. Meyer Medal, which is peaches--and will get them in the given for distinguished foreign-plant ou introduction work. One side of the & casual discovery, for instance medal is a reproduction of the white as a type of disease-resistant spinach, barked Chinese pine and the jujube, the seed of 'which Meyer picked up two of Meyer's many introductions. in Liaoyang, has repaid America many On the other side is a reproduction times over for sending him on his of the bas-relief which Queen Hat- various expeditions. This spinach was 'shepset carved on the Temple of crossed with another variety and the Luxor. Whoever receives that medal resulting type saved the disease- has, like Queen Hatshepset, given his threatened spinach industry of Vir-'country something more precious ginia and Maryland. {than gold and ebony: the lasting One could go on listing Meyer's wealth of living plants, introductions: the Chinese pistachio, 2 which now grows luxuriantly in Cali- : fornia; the Rosa xanthina, that hardy A Mender yellow push rose which keeps many a New England garden gay when all else fails; the jujube, which gives far- mers in the dry sections of the South- west a fruit crop; and the Chinese chestnut, which is blight-resistant and gives promise of saving our chestnut industry from extincti Three times Meyer went out into the Orient. Twice he returned. On his and kissed you, third trip he had a mervous prostra- And Yhen you were gone I was fran- tion. Al afte hi ©. th Thaush en thotimo ho Was | Ob, Lad, if you knew how I missed only thing in life that mattered-- Fou, health had definitely gone out of him, Soon it would be time to go back to civilization, and the chances of his ever being able to return to his work were practically nil. He mever came back. On the night of June 2, 1918, You came to me world-worn and weary, Rumpled and tattered of feather, Whimpering and broken of spirit, Crying to be put together. I mended the place that was broken, 1 smoothed you, and soothed you, It seems I'm a fixer, a mender, And when my poor patients are done They flutter their wings at my. win- dow And I give them back to the sun, --P, 8, McDonald, in the Chicago Tribune, . * nt -- Photographs were recently takem at a depth of 900 feet below sea ; level by a research expedition work- ing near Genoa. Hospital for Sick Children 67 COLLEGE ST., TORONTO 3 (Moth ft Centre, ) (Country Branch, Thistietown) December, 1931. Dear Mr. Editor: Last year the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, through the gener osity of friends In every lne of Pp ty, was I to Pp upon the parents of Ontario that any crippled or ailing child was equally entitled to the unexcelled service for which this Hospital is world famous. It was also mentioned that if the "Sick Kids" -- as the Institution Is affectionately called--were to look after more youngsters, it would need more money for their maintenance. What happened in 1031 was that more children came to the Hospital, but also about $10,000 less money to maintain them. 1 spare you the statistics: but 1 cannot alter the fact that, if the Hospital for Sick Children were not & provincias charity, Its debts would not be as burdensome as those under which it seems fated to enter 1032. The pital's i hood (Toronto and York County) has kept up close to its average subscrip- tion per patient. But outside that area there has been a sad drop. What should be done? The Hospital for Sick Children is not a local concern. Its alm is that no Ontario youngster shall go handi- capped 1ife either ot or That t be accomplished with a cash-box full of overdrafts, Yet that is the position to-day and it is not one which can everlastingly continue. So, Mr. Edi. tor, will you not invoke your readers to tend us a helping hand? Not one of them, 1 venture, could care to see the "Sick Kids" with a mortgage over their heads. Faithfully yours, IRVING E. ROBERTSON, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. EERE | Raa Threescore Years and Ten Quick, Sir, help me up--and bring my cane! "Fis cold tonight, but then I like it so. 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