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ther, but oul}^ ii.g per cent, of the total crop of Russia. The area on 

 which flax is*grown is small as compared with that under other crops. At 

 Eni.sseisk it is only 0.8 per cent, of the cultivated area. In the province 

 of the same name the yield of flax in 1914 was 90,000 puds of fibre and 

 160,000 puds of grain, having a total value of 500,000 roubles. In the 

 province of Tomsk the harvest yielded 350,000 puds of fibre and 400,000 

 puds of grain. But the organization of co-operative sales has hardly 

 l)egun, the chief obstacle to it bein^ the fact that no advances arc 

 granted. Only two attempts in the latter direction were recorded last year. 

 In the province of Tomsk the co-operative credit society of Majlianisk}- 

 could sell at high profit 100 puds deposited in its premises. In the 

 province of Enisseisk the co-operative society of Novoe vSelovskoe sold 

 440 puds on which a profit of 2.5 roubles a pud was realised. But the 

 great mass of growers still sell at ridicolous prices, thus leaving to mid- 

 dlemen an annual revenue of niore than 1,320,000 roubles. 



