The workers were fluctuating, entirely unorganized, politically inert—due to the shortage of provisioning and of organization. The technical forces could not get used to the village; besides, we did not have sufficient numbers of agricultural experts familiar with the practical organization of large estates. The regulations governing the social management of land charged the representatives of the industrial proletariat with a leading part in the work of the Soviet estates. But torn between meeting the various requirements of the Republic of prime importance, the proletariat could not with sufficient speed furnish the number of organizers necessary for agricultural management. The idea of centralized management on the Soviet estates has not been properly understood by the local authorities, and the work of organization from the very beginning had to progress amidst bitter fighting between the provincial Soviet estates and the provincial offices of the Department of Agriculture. This struggle has not yet ceased. Thus, the work of nationalizing the country’s agriculture began in the spring, i.e., a half year later than it should have, and without any definite territory (every inch of it had to be taken after a long and strenuous siege on the part of the surrounding population), with insufficient and semi-ruined equipment, without provisions, without an apparatus for organization and without the necessary experience for such work, with the agricultural workers engaged in the Soviet estates having no organization at all. According to our preliminary calculations, we are to gather in the Fall of this year a crop of produce totaling in the 2,524 Soviet estates as follows: Area in Poods Dessiatins Winter crop 1,798,711 54,000 Spring corn 4,765,790 97,720 Potatoes 16,754,900 23,754 Vegetables, approximately 4,500,000 4,659 Of the Winter corn we received only a little over what was required for seed (in a number of provinces the crops are insufficient for the consumption of the workers of the Soviet estates). The Soviet estates are almost everywhere sufficiently supplied with seeds for the spring crops. The number of horses used on the Soviet estates has been increased through the additional purchase of 12,000 to 15,000. The number of cattle has also been somewhat increased. The Soviet estates are almost completely supplied with agricultural implements and accessories, both by having procured new outfits from the People’s Commissariat for Provisioning and by means of energetic repair work on the old ones.