BREAD.
Saratov. To Comrade People's Commissar Kharlov.
August 21, 1918.
The size of surpluses indicated by you is obviously underestimated. Gather more precise data. It is necessary to single out model ones, that is, with the best organization of the rural and volost poor, in order, firstly, to determine without concealment [the size] of the quantity of grain surpluses, and secondly, to award a large bonus to the volosts that have given full cleaning and delivery of all, without exception, grain surpluses.
Convey this to all food procurers and telegraph an answer.*
Load grain faster. [718]
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.