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1, recent rains and perhaps the effects of melted snow. As we saw more and more handsome and alluring open country and forests, it was hard to understand how Russia could be poor and need to import wheat.
Only at Lake Baikal on the north face of a mountain did we see a patch of snow remaining, but we were told that in that region there are only 72 frost-free days a year. Our journey did not pass along a route south of Irkutsk, which is at 51 latitude. In our part of the world that latitude is near the bottom of Hudson’s Bay and north of Winnipeg, Canada. The northern tip of Maine is 47.
Familiar wildflowers growing near the train track delighted us. The weather was warm to hot every day. In some places, a crop seemed ready to harvest even though in others, land had recently been plowed for sowing, exposing a dark chocolate colored earth. The grandeur and lushness of the countryside belied the underlying problem of cold.
Coming upon Siberia at the end of June when rain has been favorable suggested to us that more could be done there than has apparently occurred. I recalled Khrushchev going home from a visit to our midwest believing he could revolutionize Russia’s agriculture with com. In many
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