NOTICES RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL L2=, 



In Petrograd . 2 elevators having a storage capacity of 3,200,000 puds 



" Revel ... I " " " " 250,000 



" Vindava . . i " " " " 2,362,000 " 



" Riga . . . T " . " " " 750,000 " 



" Novorossijsk i " " " " 3,000,000 " 



Nikolaev . . i " " " " 1,750,000 " 



Odessa . . i " " " " 1,000,000 " 



Total 8 12,312,000 



The storage capacity of the fifty-four elevators which were situated 

 in the interior was of 11,884,000 puds. Individual elevators among these 

 differ very much as to the amount of grain they can receive : it varies from 

 150,000 or 200,000 puds to 1,000,000 puds — the estimate being for r^'e — 

 in Moscow. 



Judged by the num]:)er of times their contents change hands during 

 a trading season the biggest elevators attain the best results : thus in Mos- 

 cow this was effected 1.74 times, in Koslov (the nearest elevators being 

 included in the calculation) 1.81 times. Two other elevators in fertile dis- 

 tricts which chiefly serve purposes of loading also work very well. All 

 the others, that is the smaller elevators, have difficulty in obtaining a like 

 success, as appears in their financial results. Only the elevators in Moscow 

 and Koslov have attained to a profit. All others on the Rjasan-Ural 

 line brought a loss to their companies. 



Year Receipt Expenditure Proiit Loss 



1912 225,041 roubles (i) 199,215 roubles 25,826 roubles — roubles 



1913 163,157 " 204,077 " — " 40,920 



1914 218,483 " 247,042 " _ " 28,559 



That the railway'- companies met with so little success in their erec- 

 tion of elevators is partly due to the fact that these for the mcst part were 

 built on sites chosen with little regard to their activities, and were connect- 

 ed neither with the banks or the exchanges, and that each of them work- 

 ed for itself alone, in isolation, the companies following onl)' their own 

 special and individual aims without seeking to influence the total trade in 

 grain. The employment of the elevators by the population was therefore 

 in no sense extensive. In 1897, 11,107,000 puds of grain were brought to 

 the elevators of the Rjasan-Ural line, which had a storage capacity of 

 6,350,000 puds; ten years later, in 1907,. 10,452,000 puds were brought to 



(i) I rouble = about 2s i^d at par. 



