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cultural instructors, ordinary peasants, and 

 others — from all parts of Finland, Lapland 

 included. But such interest is less surprising 

 in view of the amount of zeal and energy that 

 the Pellervo society is throwing into its work. 

 It publishes manuals on agricultural subjects, 

 a monthly agricultural review which has 27,000 

 subscribers, and a Year Book, which is a bulky 

 volume of over 600 pages ; it issues model rules 

 and regulations, forms, etc., for the use of 

 co-operative societies ; it has six organizers 

 whose business it is to go about the country 

 explaining to the farmers the principles of the 

 movement, and instructing the officers of agri- 

 cultural societies in regard to technical and 

 commercial details ; it holds, with the help of 

 these organizers, as many as 300 conferences 

 a year ; and it has, in the central office in 

 Helsingfors, a secretarial staff the members of 

 which, among other duties, give advice to local 

 societies, and carry on an ever-increasing corre- 

 spondence, the letters dealt with by them 

 between January 1st and December 1st, 1903, 

 representing a total of 4,000. The original 

 subsidy of the Pellervo of £800 a year from the 

 Government has been supplemented by a further 

 grant of £240 to provide a salary for a special 

 instructor in the management and working of 



