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:
| Poods | Area in 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.
The foundation has been laid (in one-half of the provinces sufficiently stable foundations) for the formation of an organizational machinery for the administration of the Soviet estates.
Within the limits of the Soviet estates the labor union of the agricultural proletariat has developed into a large organization.