from devotee - farmers of Ershovo, (South Kurjinovo Russia)

[Guest guest]

Dear Balabhadra prabhu, pleas accept our obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We are received Your' response on Friday, November, 26, 1999.

But our letter was transleated with some mi stakes. For last months we have

some guestions.

We heve not public farm, but we have cowsin individual farming. It is very

difficult forus, because we have some problems with pasturing facilities, to

restrain breeding cows.

Can You give tous some advices, experience for individual farming? Becaus

in cow protection standards is informations only obout public fsrms. In our

village called Ershovo some devotees bought cows, but then they could not know

obout cow care standards. Now they cannot follow to many rules standards cow

protection. For example, one matadji sold a calf 2 week old to karmi. She say:

'' I cannot re strain breeding cow, I have not facilities to maintenance 2

cows". Some devotees have opinion, that if to buy a milk from karmi (it is

cost 0,1$ for 1 litre) it means to assist killing cows. Jhey say, that if not

breeding the cows the milk will be very little. What we can do? What is beter

for us? In our village is two families - Prema Kalpataru das and Kasturika

d.d., Acyutananda das and Srimati Sundari d.d.(authons of this letter). We are

trying to train are oxes. We engaged ox power in supply a water, fire wood,

hay, dung.

Your servants

Acyutananda das and Srimati Sundari d.d.