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For Writing Down
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How I fight pests in the field, forest, and garden:
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How much ash for fertilizer I've gathered:
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How I take care of birds:
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How I help the protection of forests:
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What state farms (sovkhozi) and collective farms (kolkhozi) are in our area:
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Machines -- to the fields
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Who has heard of such a factory: this factory is without a roof and without walls; it is bigger than a whole city; machines go from end to end and work in motion. We already have many such factories. These are collective farms and state farms -- grain factories.
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Before, these factories did not exist. Peasants worked on their own small fields sowed by hand, and harvested with sickles. Almost half of the harvest was eaten by pests of the field: mice, gophers, beetles, caterpillars, and locusts. On small fields a machine is not profitable, like a train for just one person.
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Now peasants unite their small farms into larger collectives -- collective farms (kolkhozi), in order to work together amicably and live better than they used to in villages.
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In collective farms, fields are communal and machines are communal. State farms and collective farms, like real factories, even have their own laboratories. There, they examine grains and fertilizers, and fight field pests.
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Images from left to right: worker (possibly conductor), bumper stop, coal, oil terminal, lightbulb, train, dozer, book. These images repeat several times throughout the book and show some of the themes of industrialization present throughout. The inclusion of the book and the worker alongside other technology and resources suggest that they too are invaluable toward building and modernizing the Soviet Union. Books, which would previously have been a sign of privilege (as literacy was uncommon in the lower/peasant classes), are now used to educate Soviet children on practical matters like agricultural production. This is in line with the ideology behind collectivized farming in the USSR, wherein resources were available to and used by everyone.
