Excerpt from Foreign Crops and Markets, Vol. 15: December 19, 1927 Russian grain procurements from July 1 to December 1 amounted to short tons as Compared with short tons for the same period last year, according to a cable to the Bureau of Agricultural Econ omice from Acting Agricultural Commissioner L. V. Steere at berlin.pro curements during December were short tons as compared with 000 short tons during December 1926. Although it is now expected that December procurements will show an increase over November, procurew ments up to January 1 will probably not exceed 45 per cent of the total plans for the season compared With the 70 per cent considered essential for the success of the plan. In the 1926-27 season 3 per cent of the plan was collected by January 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.