state grain farms. They are as follows per 100 rubles
of products:
Wages occ
Beds mummies
AMOTtiZation ew.
nT
PRI cmmmsinisinmmmmmmmm———————————————————
Sundry materials i
Rubles
28.40
21.00
18.60
4.96
16.50
9 BA,
Thus, a large portion of the cost of production of
the state grain farms is made up of items representing
industrial products. This causes a state grain farm
to stand out as a distinct and new type of economy in
comparison with those types which were hitherto the
rule in agriculture.
The Soviet state has boldly carried over the ex-
perience of large-scale industrial production into agri-
culture. When this question was up for consideration
in 1928, the majority of the big specialists in agricul-
ture, having agreed to the exceptional importance of
such an approach to the problem of grain-raising,
emphasized that at the same time this would be a first
experiment and hence its success could not be guaran-
teed.
But the provision of ample resources for this mode
of grain-raising proved of decisive importance in se-
curing a solution of the grain problem as a whole, in-
asmuch as the mass collective farm movement which
at this period took the form of small collective farms,
was thus afforded a clear demonstration of the ad-
vantages of real large-scale farming. The state grain
farms in a practical way answered the question as to
the possibilities and advantages of large-scale socialist
agriculture.
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