The Hosts

A film about the educational and experimental farm of the Ulyanovsk Agricultural Institute. Dmitry Petrovich Khaisanov, director of the UChKhOZ of the Department of Agriculture, tells about the main directions of work on the farm (sinhr.). Part 1 Agricultural land of the educational and experimental farm of the Ulyanovsk Agricultural Institute. Herd of horses in the meadow. Meadow flowers sway in the wind. Road sign with the inscription: "UCHHOZ DUSHI. FACILITIES OF HIGH CULTURE, AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK. Ulyanovsk region., Cherdaklinsky district, pos. October. A woman cuts roses for a bouquet in a flower garden near the house, puts the bouquet on the table in the room, removes buns from a baking sheet in the kitchen. Birdhouse on a blooming apple tree. The building of the “Selkhozprodukty” store; the saleswoman weighs the beets. A car drives up to the store. The farm of the training and experimental farm. Cows with artificially bred calves in the pen near the farm. Distribution of feed to animals on the farm. Milkmaids wash cows, put milking machines on them. Veterinarian of the highest qualification Aleksey Petrovich Stepochkin with colleagues at work in the laboratory of the cattle embryo transplantation station. Laboratory staff draw up technological maps for each animal on a computer. The female workers put rye seeds into bags and sew them on a special machine. Bags move on a conveyor belt. Fields with corn, wheat and sunflower. Harvesting wheat with a combine. Agronomist Tamara Vladimirovna Nikitina and research staff examines spikelets of wheat in the field. Tractors with hay-mowers, a machine for tedding mowed grass, a tractor with a pick-up-stacker are working in the field. Machine operators A. Makarov and A. Lubinets near the tractor. Stacking cut grass. Part 2 A KAMAZ truck drives through a harvested wheat field. The mower is working in the field, a tractor with a trailer is moving nearby, into which the cut grass is poured. D.P. Khaisanov talks with machine operators, among them - A. Makarov. Distribution of feed to cows in the farm yard. The foreman of the rental brigade Galina Ivanovna Krainova examines the feed, talks with D.P. Khaisanov in the yard of the farm. A herd of cows in the corral near the farm. View of a rural two-story house; a man is walking along the path from the house. Tulips. Children ride bicycles along a rural street. Geese on the road, near the gate. A Moskvich car is driving along the street in the village. The waitresses in the dining room serve the tables. Visitors to the dining room dine at tables. Children play with toys, perform exercises on the wall bars in kindergarten. Children in pairs walk along the path near the kindergarten building. Apple orchard. Agronomist-gardener Alexandra Ivanovna Antonova examines an apple tree. Gardeners cultivate the trunks of fruit trees. AA Antonova talks with a woman tractor driver. A tractor with a sprinkler is driving through the garden. Herd of horses in the pasture. Horse breeders Sergei Krasnov and Konstantin Filippov put milking machines on the horse farm. Master Andrey Kol closes a bottle of kumis with a manual bottle capper, puts bottles in boxes. The troopers of the training and experimental farm take part in the races at the hippodrome. Spectators stand under umbrellas. Ears of wheat. The woman works on the computer. Grain is poured into the back of the truck. A.P. Stepochkin in the laboratory. Herd of horses in the pasture. Haystacks on the field.

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Author V. Antonov, consultant V. Kazantsev, editor G. Kornilova, sound engineer V. Popov, editor B. Kozhin