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IQ15 several elevators attained to very favourable balance-sheets, as ap- 

 pears from the following figures. 



Elevators 



Profits 

 Storage capacity 1 (Commission not 

 deducted) 



Zemstvo 

 Commission 



Net Profits 



Gr5'asi (GjOV. of Tambov) . 



Tolkaj ( 1^ » Voronesh). 



Liski ( >. » » ). 



Neprik ( » » vSamara) . 



MiUcrovo (District of the 

 Danube) 



Bosatoe (Gov. of Samara) . 



SorotPhinskaja (Gov. of S:v 



1,700,000 Puds I 71,853 Roubles; 30,559 Roubles I 41,294 Roubles 



300,000 » 



500,000 > 



300,000 a 



600,000 » 



300,000 » 



7,868 

 4,186 



13.059 

 18,991 



6,561 

 2,431 



2,433 

 4,862 



1,307 

 3,051 

 1.755 



11,049 

 10,626 



14,129 



The elevators are developing a very valuable activity in the service 

 of the mihtary authorities. In the region of Tambov, for example, where 

 the State Bank possesses four elevators, 17 per cent, of all bought grain 

 passed through these from i January until i July 1915, and 28 per cent, 

 from I July 1915 to i Januan.^ 1916. In the south-eastern region 38 per 

 cent, of all bought grain was brought to the elevators from i July 1915 

 to 1 June 1916 and 45 per cent, of oats and barley. 



Grain when received in the elevators is very carefully dried, cleaned 

 several times over, and carefully sorted. Drying machines have been 

 installed for twenty-four elevators. The building of the elevator in Nabe- 

 reshniie Tshelni, now nearly completed, will enable the total number of 

 drying machines to deal with 3,000 puds an hour. 



As regards the number of times the contents of the elevators change 

 hands in a season this is effected four or even five times in the case of the 

 large erections near railwa}^ jimctions, and from one and a half times to 

 twice in that of the .small local elevators. In order to co-ordinate the ac- 

 tivities of elevators and more and more itself to control them, the vState 

 Bank will erect them in future only on a large scale. The smaller and lo- 

 cal granaries in the rural districts will continue to be decentralized and will 

 be conducted by the zemstvo administrations and the co-operative soci- 

 eties. 



Thtis the countryman, by the medium of his co-operative society or 

 the zemstvo, can convey his grain to the State Bank's elevator which makes 

 the direct connection with the world's markets. 



All that has been said makes clear that we have here a means of 

 giving a firm basis to the Russian trade in grain and a promise of a 

 continually improving output of Russian grain on foreign markets. 



RUGGKRI ALFREDO, gereute responsabilc 



