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The law contemplates standards of agricultural 

 production and consumption on a basis of an agri- 

 cultural census and a topographic survey. A definite 

 plan is outlined for determining the labor capacity 

 of the arrangements in the agricultural popula- 

 tion. The utilization of land is carefully co-ordi- 

 nated with the man-power units of productive effort. 



"Twenty-five years ago," says Joseph Newburger, 

 writing in Commerce and Finance, issue of Septem- 

 ber 17, 1924, "you could have seen great farms 

 stretching away sometimes to the horizon, with a 

 grand mansion and spacious park-like grounds in 

 the center, and learn that Prince This or That Count 

 owned all these 10, 20, 50, 100 or 200 thousand acres. 

 You would see women, bareheaded and poorly 

 clothed, working in the fields with the men. No, 

 the Prince or Count was not at home. He was 

 living sumptuously at Paris or some other pleasant 

 place, or touring the world in his yacht, or other- 

 wise disporting himself on the wealth which the old 

 economic system was wringing from these peasants, 

 who had barely enough to keep body and soul to- 

 gether. 



"Today the Prince and Count are still abroad, 

 but wherever they are or whatever else they are do- 

 ing, they are not living riotously on the labor of 

 Russian peasants. 



"I am neither Socialist nor Communist, nor does 

 one have to be in order to see that eighty millions 

 or more of the Russian people, the farmers, are 



