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. 26