The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . ound. Russia, until lately, got all its living from the land. It is a greatagricultural country, producing cotton and rice in northern latitudescommonlj unfavorable to such culture. The profitable farming landslie mostly betAveen the Baltic and the Black Sea. In 1912 the wholearea under cultivation was 361,000,000 acres. Of this, about 78,000,-000 acre
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . ound. Russia, until lately, got all its living from the land. It is a greatagricultural country, producing cotton and rice in northern latitudescommonlj unfavorable to such culture. The profitable farming landslie mostly betAveen the Baltic and the Black Sea. In 1912 the wholearea under cultivation was 361,000,000 acres. Of this, about 78,000,-000 acres were sown in wheat, yielding about 21,500,000 tons; 72,000,-000 acres in rye, yielding nearly 26,000,000 tons; together with barley,oats, hemp, maize, flax, tobacco, and 37,000,000 tons of and flocks embrace nearly 49,000,000 head of cattle, 74,000,000 346 COUNTRIES INVOLVED sheep and goats, 13,500,000 pigs, and more than 33,000,000 ranks third among the sea-food producing countries of theglobe. It exports caviar, and imports codfish and herrings to feed apopulation that cannot live on a years catch of fish approximating1,500,000,000 pounds. In the mountains are precious metals, copper, platinum, high-grade. Some of Russias World-famous Cossacks iron, marble, rock salt, and lead. Russia leads tlie world in the pro-duction of petroleiun, the annual output approximating 515,500,000poods—a pood being 3(5 jxmnds. From immeasurable coal-beds, nearthe Dnieper and elsewhere, was taken, in 1010, coal weighing 1,600,-000 poods. In the same year was produced 3,006 poods of pure 1906 the output of steel and rails reached 2,000,000 tons. Russias total imports in 1912 were valued at more than $600,000,-000; the exports at more than $800,000,000. Her commercial marinein 1913 included 716 steamers (790,000 tons) and 500 sailing-vessels,(184,000 tons). RUSSIA The railways aggregated about miles in length—a largeportion being under governme
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