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MANUFACTURES OP RUSSIA. 



Cost OF MANUFACTURE. 



The tirst quality, pure liax yaru. is sold at 60 to 50 kopecks per pond-numbei%. 

 weft Xos. 20 to 100. aiul 65 to 55 kopecks per pond-number, same numbers warp. 

 Second quality, combed yarn. Xos. 18 to 1-4, is quoted at 11 to 9.50 roubles per pond. 

 with a difference of 75 kopecks for every two units in the number. Nos. 12 and 10 

 cost 8.50 and 9 roubles, respectively, per poud; and lastly Nos. 4 to 8 are sold at 

 5.50 to 7.50 per poud, with a difference of 1 rouble per poud-nnit of nnmber. The 

 prices given refer to raw yarn as it nsually comes into the linen factories. 



The cost of manufacturing- flax yarn is as follows: cost of combed flax suitable 

 for Xos. 20 to 70 yarn is about 25 kopecks per pond-number ; the combings used for 

 yarn Nos. 4 to 18 cost 44 to 26 kopecks per poud-number ; the spinning of combed 

 flax averages 18 kopecks per poud-number. The spinning-cost of the combings is de- 

 termined by the formula : 



0.16 JS2 + (1.2 to 1.5), which gives the price of one pond of yarn in ronbles.. 

 The cost of spinning jnte yarn Nos. 4 to 6 is about 2 roubles per pond. 



The mean price of first class Eussian linen varies from 25 to 65 kopecks per 

 arshine, 1 arshine being equal to 28 inches. The following table shows the cost of 

 manufacture per arshine of linen ^ji arshine wide, from boiled yarn: 



The expense of the weaving and bleaching approximately amounts only to one- 

 fourth of the cost of the finislied goods, or about one-third of that of the yarn. 



Conclusion. 



A knowledge of the present condition of the manufacture of goods from fast 

 vegetable fibres leads to the inevitable conclusion that this branch of trade is thor- 

 oughly developed, and fully capable of satisfying the internal demands. Eussia is- 



