A BUTTER-PRODUCiNG RIVAL.
WHAT SIBERIA DOES. A British Consular report states Siberia's butter exports at .£4,000,000 annually. Of the total output, which is obtained from 2000 to 3000. farms, representing a capital value of only ,£l,Gflo,ooO. European llussia, Germany, England, and Denmark take between them 50,000 tons. At present the area of production of butter is. a strip of country of about 200 or 250 miles along the railway from tho Urals to the Obi and thence to the Altai Mountains, surrounding which tract are vast stretches of country which a railway would immediately add to the comparatively insignificant area now devoted to dairying. Exports of other cattle products are placed at X 2.000.000 annually, :.and attempts have lately been made to introduce Siberian meat into England and Germany. More recently a shipping trado in game and poultry has lreen set going, and thn' eggs supplied to other countries are. increasing very rapidly in number. '
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1286, 15 November 1911, Page 10
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155A BUTTER-PRODUCiNG RIVAL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1286, 15 November 1911, Page 10
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