great deal more out of his land than he does.
"In other ways also we are doing everything we
can to give direct help to the small agriculturists.
We have mobilized all the agricultural experts in
the country. We are issuing a mass of simply
written pamphlets explaining better methods of
farming."

(I have seen scores of these pamphlets on for-
estry, potatoes, turf, rotation of crops, and so on,
besides the agricultural journals issued by the
Commissariat and sent in large quantities to the
villages.)

I told Sereda I had heard that the peasants
were refusing to sow more than they wanted for
their own needs. He said that on the contrary
the latest reports gave them the right to hope for
a greater sown area this year than ever before, and
that even more would have been sown if Den-
mark had not been prevented from letting them
have the seed for which they had actually paid.
I put the same question to him that I put to Nogin
as to what they most needed; he replied, "Trac-
tors."

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