RUSSIAN LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY. 



According to a despatch from Mr. H. Cooke, British 

 Commercial Agent in Russia, Prince A. G. Scherbatoff, at a 

 meeting of the Moscow Imperial Agricultural Society, held 

 on November 12th last, explained the measures taken for 

 the advancement of Russian cattle-breeding, more especially 

 with reference to the organisation of meat exports to Great 

 Britain. Of the three great industrial countries requiring 

 foreign meat, Germany and France maintain a protective 

 customs policy, Great Britain remaining the only country to 

 which Russian meat can be directed with advantage. During 

 the past five years the requirements of the British market 

 have created in Russia a profitable export trade and industry 

 in game, eggs, and butter, to the value of 75,000,000 roubles- 

 For the greater development of the meat export trade, the 

 Ministry of Finance has granted to ihe Moscow Agricultural 

 Society a sum of 175,000 roubles, of which 65,000 roubles 

 will be devoted to the organisation of experimental exports 

 of meat to Great Britain, and 10,000 roubles to arranging 

 for periodical visits to British agricultural markets of parties 

 of Russian agriculturists and dealers in agricultural produce. 

 Two visits of this kind have now been made ; the second 

 party, numbering 20 persons, started from Moscow on 

 November 27th. 



In view of these organised efforts to develop the exports- 

 of Russian dairy produce and meat to the United King- 

 dom, special interest attaches to a Return recently pub- 

 lished by the Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry 

 of the Interior at St. Petersburg of the results of an in- 

 quiry undertaken in 1900 to ascertain the numbers of live 



