SUBORDINATE INDUSTRIES 97 



most important factors connected with the foreign 

 export trade. 



Next to sawn timber comes furniture making, which 

 is an important industry. The chief factories are to be 

 found in the Governments of Petrograd and Moscow. 

 Cooperage also employs a considerable amount of' 

 labour in the Governments of Astrakhan, Kherson, 

 Kontais, and Jaroslav. Amongst subsidiary forestry 

 industries are those of the wheelwright and coach- 

 builder, which chiefly flourish in the Governments of 

 Petrograd, Moscow, and Kiev. The match-making 

 industry is spread throughout the forest regions. 



The industries of wood pulp and cellulose manufac- 

 ture are still in their infancy, though both are now 

 developing with some rapidity. 



The dry distillation of wood is another industry 

 which has a future before it. Tar, pitch, and oil of 

 turpentine are all produced in Russia, but in compara- 

 tively small amounts considering the enormous area of 

 the woods. The industry is, however, developing. 



It will be now of interest to glance at the exports 

 of forestry produce from Russia. A very large amount 

 of the materials from the vast forests is of course used 

 in the country, the chief means of transport being the 

 rivers, down which the materials are floated. Of these 

 the chief are the Volga and tributaries, the Dnieper 

 and the Vistula. A smaller proportion is carried by 

 railway, more especially in Central Russia. The 

 material thus transported is used in the industrial and 

 populous centres of the country. In the northern 

 provinces, in the Govermnents of Archangel and Vol- 

 ogda, forestry materials are scarcely required in the 



