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 experience
 of large-scale industrial production into agriculture.
 When this question was up for consideration
in 1928, the majority of the big specialists in agriculture,
 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 guaranteed.

But the provision of ample resources for this mode
of grain-raising proved of decisive importance in securing
 a solution of the grain problem as a whole, inasmuch
 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 advantages
 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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