Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1794855874

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179223

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Polner, Tichon I. http://d-nb.info/gnd/172311195

Title:: Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

Place of publication:: New Haven

Publisher:: Yale Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XXV, 317 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. Assistance to farming

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156 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR dressed to the provincial governor and he forwarded it to the immi- gration department. The latter informed the governor that “under the regulations concerning the employment of yellow labor in the Empire west of the right bank of the Volga River, approved by the Emperor on April 4 of the present year, members of the aforemen- tioned yellow races will be admitted only in individual deserving cases by agreement between the Ministers of War, Interior, and Transport.” Accordingly, the provincial governor advised the Xon- stantinograd zemstvo to obtain in the manner prescribed a permit for the admission of Chinese and then to “apply to the information bureau on labor in the cities of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, which have the charge of hiring yellow labor.” We do not know whether the Konstantinograd zemstvo found itself still possessed of sufficient energy to attempt to overcome these entanglements of red tape. Agricultural Machinery and Implements. Closely related to the problem of labor was that of agricultural machinery. Throughout the War the zemstvo warehouses had been mobilizing their full stock of farming machinery, and even in 1917, when Russian agriculture already suffered from an acute shortage of everything, the Association of Western Zemstvos in Kiev was still in a position to supply farmers with all kinds of indispensable articles. It furnished altogether 11,798 plows, 941 seed drills, 868 straw cutters, 1,785 harrows, 1,480 grain cleaners and graders, 1,526 cultivators and extirpators, 26,936 scythes, 6,282 sickles, 793 threshing machines, 236 sets of thresher equipment, 5,538 pitch- forks, 8,018 threshing flails, 823 weeders, 963 spades, 1,995 anvils and hammers, 80,110 arshins’ of transmission belts, 86,000 puds® of binder twine, 42,454 puds of fertilizers, 79,363 puds of forage seeds, and 1,042 puds of garden seeds. Of course, all this was a mere drop in the ocean, relatively to the actual needs of the country. The supplies in the zemstvo warehouses were very far from satisfying the requirements of the peasantry in new farming equipment, and a number of zemstvos proceeded to set up their own repair shops, while some of them attempted to produce their own agricultural machines and implements, as well as ferti- lizers and other such articles. The zemstvo of Vyatka took over the 8 One ton — 62 puds.

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