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Siberian Butter Industry. 



producing a natural yellow oleo by keeping the yellowest fat 

 separate. 



The exports of butter show a great falling-off during the year. 

 The law taxing oleomargarine also contained provisions as to 

 the manufacture and handling of "process" or "renovated" 

 butter. This is butter bought in the country, and practically 

 unsaleable owing to colour, salting or keeping quality, which is 

 melted, cleansed and rechurned. A large quantity of this is 

 exported and sold as " is. butter." 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, 1903, No. 2,952.] 



The Butter Industry in Siberia. 



Mr. Henry Cooke, H.M. Commercial Agent in Russia, has 

 recently supplied to the Foreign Office a Report on the trade of 

 Siberia. He states that the completion of the western section 

 of the Trans-Siberian Railway has, among other results, produced 

 an extremely rapid increase in the exportation of butter, chiefly 

 owing to the continually growing demand for this product in the 

 United Kingdom. Numerous Danish and German, and some 

 British, offices engaged in this trade are already established in 

 various centres. Dating only from 1894, previous to which no 

 butter whatever was produced for export, and commencing in 

 the neighbourhood of Kourgan, the industry has spread to 

 Omsk, Kainsk, Novo-Nikolaievsk, Barnoul, Biisk, and Minus- 

 sinsk ; and it is now the main resource of the peasant population 

 of these districts. The establishment of peasant associations 

 and societies, and the superior enterprise and modern improve- 

 ments of the export firms, foreign and Russian, which have 

 settled in the country itself, have greatly improved the conditions 

 of production. 



The United Kingdom and Denmark are the principal centres 

 of demand, but the Siberian product is also met with so far east as 

 Dalny and Port Arthur, and even in China and Japan. Through 

 the establishment of direct communication vid Riga, Siberian 



