ON ANIMAL HUSBANDRY*.
June 21 [1921]
Comrade Tsyodorovich!
Now the meat tax has been implemented.
Don't you think it would be timely now to lean with all your strength on the development of meat cattle breeding in suburban sovkhozes, in industrial (i.e. assigned to industrial workers) sovkhozes, in the army, etc., etc.?
You once said that specialists consider the development of rabbit and pig breeding possible (not at the expense of grain products). Why not immediately legalize a number of measures in this sense?
Drop me a line or two.
Yours, Lenin.

* 1 Tsyodorovich I.A. - in 1921 he was a member of the presidium of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture.
* Decree on the meat tax was adopted by the Council of People's Commissars on June 14, 192* [sic] year. Published in "Izvestia VTsIK" No. 133 on June 22, 1921.