406 



Warsaw Hop Fair. 



H.M. Acting Commercial Agent at Moscow reports that the 

 Russian Government will make an annual grant, from 1904, of 

 ,£9,552 in aid of the improvement and ex- 



of the years 1904 and 1905 towards the same objects in Western 

 Siberia; £j^9 De devoted in 1904 to the organisation of 

 butter-making societies in Western Siberia ; and ^528 to the 

 construction of special testing laboratories in European Russia. 

 A large proportion of the two first-named grants will be ex- 

 pended on the salaries of special butter experts and instructors 

 and in organising special courses of instruction. 



H.M. Consul-General at Warsaw reports that, owing to the 

 shortness of the hop crop generally, prices at the Warsaw hop 

 fair were this year very good, first quality 

 Warsaw Hop hops fetching twice as much as last year. 

 Fair. Prices had been steadily rising since the 



Poland had already changed hands before the fair, growers pre- 

 ferring to sell in the spring so as to get an advance of cash. 

 The hop crop of Poland, which had been expected to be only a 

 little over 8,000 cwt, turned out much better, and amounted to 

 over 13,000 cwt. 



Russian Dairy 

 Industry. 



pansion of the butter industry in European 

 Russia ; ,£8,180 will be granted in each of 



spring, and most of the hops grown in 



