114 NOTICES RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



have come- from America for articles of an artistic kind produced by home 

 industry, and a connection has successfully been made with two large Amer- 

 ican firms which have undertaken to market and to popularize goods so 

 produced. In the spring of 1916 the section sent samples of them to the 

 Lyons market, with most fruitful results. An important future market has 

 thus been certainly secured. 



In the course of years an office of intelligence and information is to be 

 established in Petrograd, where collections of samples and illustrated cat- 

 alogues will be found, and where all the conditions of the trade and other 

 information regarding home industry will be comnumicated to those inter- 

 ested. It is also considered necessary to found in Paris a depository of 

 specimen articles in which direct orders will be taken. Everything pro- 

 mises that such a depository will have a practically certain commercial 

 success. The experience gained in Paris will lead to the formation of a scien- 

 tifically organized market in England, in which only the articles for which 

 there is a demand will be supplied. So soon as this organization of markets 

 begins to develop on the right lines, indicated by the government depart- 

 ment, the supreme authority will leave the further conduct of the enter- 

 prise to the zemstvos, who will develop still more the market for the arti- 

 cles produced and trace new paths for home industry. 



2. THE SETTIyEMENT OF KIRGHIZ NOMADS ON THE STEPPES OF TURKESTAN. 

 — HaBtcTiH SoMCKaro (JrAiiaa {Bulletin of the Division of the Zemstvos), No. 10, Octo- 

 ber, 19 1 6, Petrograd. 



Since the colonization of districts of Central Asia with settlers from 

 European Russia has progressed, and railways have ensured the country's 

 economic development, the Kirghiz — once the sole inhabitants of the 

 vast regions of Turkestan — have little by little begun to abandon their 

 nomadic life and settle down on the soil. 



Migration having been rendered more difficult by the establishment 

 of the Russian colonies, the Kirghiz learnt how to till and cultivate tlie 

 soil from the colonists and were converted to faith in the advantages of 

 agriculture. First owners of tents and then whole villages asked the au- 

 thorities to assign to them in full ownership clearly determined lots of agri- 

 cultural land, to be held by the same legal forms as those of the Russian 

 colonists. Consequently in igo8 the Council of Ministers decided to orga- 

 nize the lands to be colonized in Turkestan so that they might be available 

 not only for Russian colonists but also for the Kirghiz, and to give equal 

 rights to ±he two peoples. 



This measure was at first adopted only in the district of Cokcetav.sc 

 in the province of Acmolinsc, but its application was extended on 8 June 

 1909 to the other provinces of Turkestan. 



