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 all practical business men affirm that in the case of Russian land the difficulties are far more considerable. However, the experiments attempted on a large enough scale in Italy, and especially in Roumania, are on the whole encouraging, and with the help of the semi-communist habits of the Russian peasant perhaps the more vast experiment to which the young democracy seem to be heading may constitute one of its most interesting and original developments.

The savings and loans associations are, as we have stated, very numerous. Most of them help farmers to procure the funds necessary for the perfecting of their working of the land. They also obtain the credit necessary to allow them to hold over until spring that is to say, until the moment when the prices are at their best the sale of their wheat. That is a very important question in the agrarian industry of the country. To quote again from the report from which we have already given a long extract:

"It has long been known that in the autumn the peasants are always forced to sell in the market a great quantity of grain at a very low price, because, the