The co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance and character . 7() CO-OlKKATION IN KI^SSlA. produce business, went abroad to study this industry, andreturned to Russia with the idea of initiating the co-opera-tive dairy business, making a start tlie productionof cheese. Thanks to the sympathetic attitude of the. X. V. Vereshtchagin. public and to the support received from the Zemstvo, theyhave succeeded very shortly in establishing a number ofcheesemaking artels. These first attempts, howevei, endedin failure. The processes of cheesemaking had not CO-OPERATKJ-N IN KUSSIA.
The co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance and character . 7() CO-OlKKATION IN KI^SSlA. produce business, went abroad to study this industry, andreturned to Russia with the idea of initiating the co-opera-tive dairy business, making a start tlie productionof cheese. Thanks to the sympathetic attitude of the. X. V. Vereshtchagin. public and to the support received from the Zemstvo, theyhave succeeded very shortly in establishing a number ofcheesemaking artels. These first attempts, howevei, endedin failure. The processes of cheesemaking had not CO-OPERATKJ-N IN KUSSIA. 77 Biifficiently been studied in Russia, which, in addition, hadno specialists, and the cheese produced was of a very lowquality. At the end of the nineties of the last centui-y dairyco-operation revived again; this time, however, attentionwas concentrated upon butter making and not on cheese. Sihi riaii ( o-op< ration. Tiie emergence of the butter-produciug artels in Siberiais not accidental. The Sibeiiau peasantry is incomparablymore wealthy and has more land at its disjoosal than thepeasantiy in European Russia. This aspect of thesituation opened before the Siberian peasantry the possi-bility of paying serious attention to cattle are, on an average, four cows to each peasantfamily in Siberia, a number to
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