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NOTE TO THE SECRETARY [1]

Notify the Food Research Institute tomorrow by special memo that in three months’ time they must present exact and complete data on practical achievements in producing
sugar from sawdust.

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Notes:
[1]
This note was apparently written during a meeting of the Council
of People’s Commissars on August 26, 1919, at which the work
of the Food Research Institute was discussed. The C.P.C. decided
“that a report by the People’s Commissariat for Health and the
People’s Commissariat for Food on the practical tasks of the Food
Research Institute be made within three months. Within the
same period, a report by the Food Research Institute to be made
on the techniques of producing sugar from sawdust”. =

Fotieva wrote on Lenin’s note: “Fulfilled 28.VIII.”

Apparently at the same sitting, Krasin wrote a note to Lenin
saying that 18 lbs. of sugar could be obtained from one pood of
sawdust. Lenin wrote back in reply: “Unbelievable—18 lbs. from
one pood!! 45 per cent??? Sugar content? %?” = ( Lenin Miscellany XXIV , p. 29.) Lenin frequently reverted to this subject (see
present edition, Vol. 35, Document 230).