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my authority, " have been literally saved from 

 starvation by what they have received for their 

 butter. Yet they are anything but grateful. 

 Siberia's population exists largely on English 

 money, but curses the giver." 



The point, however, with which I am here 

 mainly concerned is not either a fiscal or a senti- 

 mental one, but the practical consideration that 

 the exceedingly rapid growth and the truly 

 enormous expansion of the Siberian dairy in- 

 dustry, on the lines described, are directly due 

 to that system of effective and thoroughgoing 

 organization which, whatever the precise form it 

 may assume, and whatever the particular country 

 in which it may be developed, constitutes in 

 present-day conditions the indispensable basis for 

 any real success in agricultural pursuits. 



