Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1915 — Co-operation in Russia. [ARTICLE]

Co-operation in Russia.

Even today millions of the Russian peasants are not only too poor to employ any but the simplest instruments of agriculture, but the smallness of their acres makes the machinery we are accustomed to out of the question. On the other hand, there are large estates with the finest modern machinery, while the peasant proprietor is gradually overcoming the difficulty by co-operative buying. Six million households were associated with co-operative associations in 1911, and 310 out of the 370 zemstvos were last year engaged In the sale of agricultural machinery. Long years of experience in the semicommunal dealings of the “mir” have trained the Russian peasants in the qualities necessary for cooperative enterprise.