Abstract
IN October last press carried an announcement from Moscow of a 15-year plan for reclamation of steppes: elimination of drought and soil erosion, reforestation, irrigation, fertilization, crop rotation and adaptation and complete farm mechanization. Derogatory comparison with conservation work of United States called forth prompt protest' from leading agriculturists. At same time it was pointed out that the United States and seem to be up against similar problems and would find mutual benefit in exchange of experiences. Similarities in great grasslands of two countries were subject of a classic paper by C. F. Marbut, Russia and United States in World's Wheat Market, published in Geographical Review eighteen years ago. And recently, pertinent comment was made by Fairfield Osborn in Our Plundered Planet.2 He concludes an admirably succinct chapter on with remark: Both countries are facing future on approximately equal terms as far as assets for existence are concerned. The future holds answer as to which nation will be more successful in using and conserving them! This view he reiterated in speaking before Herald Tribune forum on Our Imperiled Resources.3 So, too, William Vogt, who, in Road to Survival, finds that basic to whole future of U.S.S.R. and its relationship with other countries of world is its ability to cope with agriculture in dry-farming
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