26 RUSSIA - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



exported 4,672,000 pouds, valued at 71,000,000 roubles, while ten years 

 previously the export was only 1,190,000 pouds of a value of 1^,500,000 

 roubles. Most of the co-operative dairies are subventioned by the Im- 

 perial Government and by the Zemstvo ; a certain number of them owe 

 their foundation to the action of the professors of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment. Among the dairies there is to be noted a successful movement in 

 favour of federation. The most important federation is that of Kurgan, 

 in the Government of Tobolsk : it federates 600 dairies with 120,000 

 members; in 1912 it sold 477,000 pouds of butter. 



These are, briefly summarised, the most recent statistics relating to 

 co-operation in Russia. There is no doubt that the bill on co-operation 

 now in preparation will still further advance the movement, already so full 

 of vitality. 



