PRODUCTION AND MOVEMENT 



Since the construction of the Great Siberian Railway the 

 actual and potential productive powers of Asiatic Russia, and 

 especially of Siberia, have been an interesting subject for spec- 

 ulation in Europe and America. In the popular conception 

 previous to this event, Siberia was a land of polar nights and 

 eternal snow, the monotony of whose dreary wastes was broken 

 only by the clanking chains of Russia's exiles exiles who were 

 not always criminals, but who, according to Occidental ideas, 

 frequently represented the very flower of Russian citizenship. 



AREA UNDER WHEAT IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE 1 

 (In round thousands ) 



PRODUCTION OF WHEAT AND RYE IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE 

 (In round thousands.) 



Wheat 



1 U. S. Dept. Agr., Bu. of Sta., Bui. 42, 1906, p. 16.. 



