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peasant down and not educating him " is absurd. 

 Far from such being the case, Russia has wisely 

 selected a practical and beneficial method of educa- 

 tion and one admirably suited to the necessities of 

 the case. She is gradually introducing the Siberian 

 peasant to the means of obtaining a better liveli- 

 hood and so achieving all and more than our Western 

 methods have accomplished in the case, say, of the 

 half -educated, intellectually -mis directed products of 

 our Board School system. 



These subsidised co-operative dairies manufacture 

 an article of very uniform quality, while the quantity 

 fluctuates between 15 and 30 cwts. per week, repre- 

 senting the amount of cream supplied by from five 

 to ten skimming stations. The method of working 

 is similar to that of the dairies of New Zealand, 

 our leading colony for quality. The separator used 

 is also similar in type to that used in New Zealand, 

 the favourite pattern being the " Alfa Laval " ; but 

 the New Zealand creameries use a much more ex- 

 pensive apparatus, giving much larger results, the 

 largest factories producing as much as 250 cwts. 

 per week. The system of Pasteurising the milk, 

 as applied in Denmark, has also been introduced in 

 the Siberian co-operative dairies. Denmark will have 

 to reckon with Siberia before long both as regards 

 price and quality. The inevitable result of increased 

 production of the Siberian dairies will be that other 

 countries, not being able to make their dairies pay, 

 will reduce their production, and, in time, like 

 Germany of recent years, instead of exporting butter 

 to Great Britain, will finish by importing large 

 quantities from Siberia thernselves. At present 

 Denmark imports enormous quantities of the best 

 Siberian butter and, by doing so, is enabled to export 

 very largely of the produce of her own dairies, 

 besides exporting the Siberian article both to Great 



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