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the rural industries, and the difficulties they have 

 to contend with, have been made in Russia. A 

 house-to-house inquiry which embraces nearly 

 1,000,000 peasants' houses has been made in 

 various provinces of Russia, and its results 

 already represent 450 volumes, printed by 

 different county councils (Zemstvos). Besides, 

 in the fifteen volumes published by the Petty 

 Trades Committee, and still more in the pub- 

 lications of the Moscow Statistical Committee, 

 and of many provincial assemblies, we find 

 exhaustive lists giving the name of each worker, 

 the extent and the state of his fields, his live 

 stock, the value of his agricultural and in- 

 dustrial production, his earnings from both 

 sources, and his yearly budget ; while hundreds 

 of separate trades have been described in 

 separate monographs from the technical, eco- 

 nomical, and sanitary points of view. 



The results obtained from these inquiries were 

 really imposing, as it appeared that out of the 

 80 or 90 million population of European Russia 

 proper, no less than 7,500,000 persons were 

 engaged in the domestic trades, and that their 

 production reached, at the lowest estimate, 

 more than 150,000,000, and most probably 

 200,000,000 (2,000,000,000 roubles) every year.* 



* It appears from the house-to-house inquiry, which embodies 

 855,000 workers, that the yearly value of the produce which 



