Photo and copyright by Underwood & Underwood 



TE^MPORARY FARM OF A SIBERIAN FARMER 



Many thousands of peasants annually journey from European Russia to Siberia, pioneers 

 such as were those hardy Americans who pressed westward across the Alleghanies a century 

 ago and laid the foundations of the wonderful progress of the Mississippi Valley. The 

 government does everything within its power to encourage them, even to buying agricultural 

 machinery and reselling it to them on the instalment plan. 



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