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education, town markets accessible to all the 

 growers, and, above all, co-operation, which again 

 is a result of the effort that was made by the 

 educated classes after the unfortunate war of 

 1864. 



Everyone knows that it is now Banish butter 

 which rules the prices hi. the London market, and 

 that this butter is of a high quality, which can 

 only be attained in co-operative creameries with 

 cold storage and certain uniform methods in 

 producing butter. But it is not generally known 

 that the Siberian butter, which is now imported 

 in immense quantities into this country, is also 

 a creation of the Danish co-operators. When 

 they began to export their butter in large quan- 

 tities, they used to import butter for their own 

 use from the southern parts, of the West Siberian 

 provinces of Tobolsk and Tomsk, which are 

 covered with prairies very similar to those of 

 Winnipeg in Canada. At the outset this butter 

 was of a most inferior quality, as it was made by 

 every peasant household separately. The Danes 

 began therefore to teach co-operation to the 

 Russian peasants, and they were rapidly under- 

 stood by the intelligent population of this fertile 

 region. The co-operative creameries began to 

 spread with an astounding rapidity, without us 

 knowing for some time wherefrom came this 

 interesting movement. At the present time a 



