NEW SOVIET AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY FINDS WIDE APPLICATION

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• Publication Date: May 2, 1952
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTE LIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS ON RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT
HOW
DATE OF
Economic; Technological - Agricultural machine - INFORMATION 1951 - 1952
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 2 Jun 1951 - 24 Feb 1952
LANGUAGE Russian
building industry
DATE DIST. 2. My1952
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NEW SOVIET AGRICULTURgL MACRINERY FINDS WIDE APPLICATION
DELAY PRODUCTION OF GRAIN DRYER -- Moscow, Pravda, 25 Jun 51
In 1950, the All-Union Scientific Research Thermotechnical Institute
imeni Dzerzhinskiy conducted thorough tests of the new VTI portable grain
dryer and found that grain could be dried rapidly at high temperatures with-
out destroying its food quality.
In comparing the air-blowing VTI dryer with the old Kuzbass and VISKhOM
dryers having the same productivity, it must be noted that the VTI is simpler
in design, five times cheaper, consumes four times _'ss metal, handles any
stage of initial moisture content, can be heated with coal, and is fireproof.
The grain dryer is transported on a 3-ton truck and is convenient to set up
and operate.
In the rainy weather of 1950, five VTI ;yers used in Naro-Fominskiy
Rayon saved the harvest from serious losses then other grain dryers could
not handle the wet grain.
The dryer has been sent to an experimental station of the Ministry of
Agriculture USSR, but.tests were not started until all the wet grain was gone
so that no conclusions could be reached. The mass construction of these dry-
ers must be started while there is still time so that they can be used in the
coming fall harvest.
DEVELOP SUGAR-BEET COMBINE -- Moscow, Moskovakiy Komsomolets, 16 Oct 51
The new SKEM-3 three-row sugar-beet combine can harvest 3 hectares
(that is, about 6,000 goods) of sugar-beets per day. The machine is trac-
tor-drawn and replaces several dozen men in harvesting operations.
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MAKF WIDESPREAD USE OF FODDER GRINDER -- Petro-.avodsk, Leninskoye Znemya,
23 Nov 51
The IK-3 fodder grinder has found wide application in agriculture. It
replaces' a number of fodder-processing machines, the chaff cutter, the silo
cutter, the root cutter, and grain, salt, and chalk crushers.
'Me fodder grinder is equipped with a 4-7 kilowatt motor and can also
be driven by a horse. One '.o three men are needed to operate the machine, de-
pending on the type of work being performed.
USE NEW SEED CLEANERS -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 24 Feb 52
EMS-1 electromagnetic seed cleaners are being used to clean the seed of
perennial grasses in Minsk Oblast. The machines clean a ton or more of seed
daily.
GOMEL' PLANT BOOSTS OUTPUT; CUT PRODUCTION COSTS -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belo-
russiya, 2 Jun 51
The Gomsel'mash (Gomel' Agricultural Machine-Building) Plant fulfilled
its 5-month plan for gross and commodity production on 20 May 1951, 11 days
ahead of time. The assembly shop has completed its 6-month plan for the
MK-1100 thresher.
Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 17 Aug 51
The Gomael'mash Plant has turned out the first group of ensilage com-
bines designed by plant engineers and scientific workers of the All-Union
Scien.iflc Research Institute of Agricultural Machine Building (VISKhOM).
This combine speeds up the harvesting of ensilage five to seven times.
Moscow, Pravda, I Oct 51
The Gomselsmash Plant has assumed the following obligations for the
remainder of 1951: to fulfill the 1951 plan for gross production by 5 Decem-
ber, to increase labor productivity 1.5 beyond the plan, to reduce rejects in
casting by 9 percent, to lower production costs 500,000 rubles beyond the
plan, to reduce labor consumption of products by 20 percent as compared to
1950, to save 1.2 million rubles by adopting innovations, and to raise the
qualifications of 500 workers.
Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 4 Nov 51
Workers of the Gomsel'mash Plant have promised to produce 250 additional
silo cutters for straw from saved materials by the end of 1951.
Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 15 Dec 51
The Gomsel'mash Plant reports that it completed the 1951 plan for gross
and commodity production ahead of time, lowered production costs 3 percent
beyond the plan, produced 250 silo cutters above the plan from saved metal,
and converted 31 percent more machine tools to high-speed methods.
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IMPROVE METEODS AT KIROVOGRAD PLANT -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 21 Jun 51
To fulfill its plan for increasing seeder output, tbt Kirovograd Kras-
naya Zvezda Plant had to mobilize the efforts of all its workers. This was
especially true in 1948, when the plan for seeder output was increased to more
than twice that of 1947. A general survey of the plant's technology led to
basic improvements in parts production. Labor consumption in making agricul-
tural machines was reduced by 20 percent, and labor productivity in a number
of sections increased 40 percent and more.
A plant technical council was organized, and more than 20 perwanent com-
plex brigades were formed. In 1950 - 1951 alone, ..onnplex brigades in th,
shops adopted 1,471 valuable proposals resulting in a yearly saving of almost
2 million rubles.
The plant has organized 59 Stakhanovite schools for studying casting,
welding, assembling, and machining operations, and 589 workers have been
trained in these schools.
IMPROVE PROCESSES; REORGANIZE LAGGING PLANT -- Moscow, Izvestiya, 30 Sep 51
Two machines for electric contact heating of parts have been adopted for
use in production at the Frunze Agricultural Machine-Building Plant imeni
Frunze. Use of the new machines has raised productivity ten times and
eliminated rejects. Tempering of a part, which formerly took 30 minutes, now
takes 3-4 seconds.
Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 20 Feb 52
For a number of years, the Frunze Agricultural Machine-Building Plant
imeni Frunze has not been
fulfilling its plans, and
in
1951,
the plant failed
to deliver a great number
machines.
of mowers, tractor rakes,
and
other
agricultural
In 1951, 40 major technical and organizational measures were put into
effect, including the complex mechanization of the malleable iron foundry
and the construction of 25 constant-flow lines for machining parts and assem-
bly units.
In January 1952, the plant exceeded its entire products-list plan and
successfully met the plan for the production of farm-machine spare parts
which were in short supply. -- B. Shipulin, director, Frunze Agricultural
Machine-Building Plant imeni Frunze
PRODUCE MORE COMBINES Leningradskaya Pravda, 27 Dec 51
On 26 December, the Krasnoyarsk Self-Propelled Combine Plant fulfilled
its 1951 plan. The plant produced 25 percent more combines than in 1950 and
saved 1,600,000 rubles by lowering production costs.
Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 28 Dec 51
The 100,000th Stalinets-6 combine has come off the main conveyer of the
Rostsel'mash Plant.
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PLANT GIVEN INCREASED PIODUCTION TASKS -- Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 8 Jan 52
The 1952 production quota for the Lyubertsy Agricultural Machine-Building
Plant imeni Ukhtomskiy is larger and more complex than the 1951 plan. Although
the plan has been raised only 15 percent in terms of the price valuation of
the goods produced, it has been increased one third in terms of labor consump-
tion. In 1952, the plant will start large series production of flax c.nbines
and the three bar, tractor-drawn K-6 mower, which mows 2.7 hectares per hour.
It is no small task to increase the volume of production by 31 percent,
using existing production space and increasing the number of workers only 7
percent. Two important technical measures are being taken to ensure a suffi-
cient number of castings for the above-mentioned goals. First, loading opera-
tions in the charge-mixing yard are being mechanized, and second, hand opera-
tions in the cleaning of castings are being cut to a minimum. -- S. Popov,
acting director, Lyubertsy Agricultural Machine -Bui]ding Plant imeni Ukhtamskiy
Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 10 Jan 52
The Lyubertsy Agricultural Machine-Building Plant imeni Ukhtomskiy saved
4.5 million rubles in 1951 by adopting over 400 innovations.
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