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Sugar Syndicate in Russia. 



neighbouring cheese factories, for which, they pay 2d. to 3d.,, 

 and sometimes 3±d., per ioolbs., usually delivered at the 

 factory. From this is obtained from 2 J to 3 per cent, of its 

 weight in refined sugar. The quantity exported to Europe 

 is stated to be increasing, but as the article is not separately 

 distinguished in the Trade Returns no figures are available. 



The Austro-Hungarian Consul-General at St. Petersburg 

 . reports to his Government that of all the 

 SU fn r RussS Cate Russian industrial syndicates that of the 

 sugar manufacturers is the best known. 

 This syndicate was founded at Kiew on the 28th of April 

 1887, and was re-established in 1895. The object of this 

 society, to which 210 of the 227 Russian sugar factories 

 belong, is the regulation of the sugar industry by fixing 

 the obligatory exportation of a certain quantity of sugar 

 which cannot be consumed in Russia. For this purpose the 

 syndicate fixes for each factory a normal limit of production for 

 home consumption, and all sugar in excess of this limit must 

 be exported. In fixing this limit, the demands of the home 

 market and the product of factories not belonging to the 

 syndicate have to be carefully taken into consideration. 

 Another aim of the syndicate is to raise the prices, which fell 

 inconsequence of the over-production of the year 1895 ; and 

 another is to gain more trustworthy accounts of the condition 

 of the provincial markets. The syndicate was obliged to 

 dissolve in 1895, because differences ot opinion among certain 

 of the members prevented the necessary renewal of the agree- 

 ment. But on the 20th of November, 1895, it was re-estab- 

 lished, in closer connection with the Government, and on a 

 firmer basis. 



The following precautions should be carefully observed by 

 the cheese-maker, should he by any acci- 



T Cheese n dent §" et into nis dail T a diseasecl cura 

 or a curd containing any taint. Let him 



remember that the mere contact of his hands with such curd 



