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has been divided into sections or tracts, certain of which
are periodically closed to all hunting or trapping. Fur
farming is being studied as scientifically as in Canada and
the U.S.A., and State farms have been established all over
the country.
* Factories for the dressing and dyeing of furs are being
opened in various centres in Russia. The factories are all
equipped with the latest type of fur-manipulating
machines, and expert supervision of dressing and dyeing
processes is provided by Austrian and German workmen,
who have been enticed by offers of large salaries. Judging
by the success which has already been achieved, there is no
doubt that at the end of five years Russia will have obtained
a degree of efficiency in dressing and dyeing furs which
will place the products of her factories on a level with those
of any of the leading dressers and dyers in the world. No
one has any right to say that Russia should not develop
any branch of her industry, but if the goods so produced,
by reason of the under-payment of her workpeople and
disregard of productive costs, can be dumped into another
country to the detriment of its own industries, then that
country should and must safeguard itself.
“ Though the quantity of dressed and dyed goods
offered through Soviet agents is already creating concern
and disorganisation, it is as yet barely 1o per cent. of
Soviet Russia’s projected production. There appears to be
no standard or basic price either for Russia's raw material
or for dressed and dyed skins. Many of the latter are
offered below the price of the raw material, and these
prices are subject to fluctuations and special allowances
such as would cover the cost of import duties into countries
 protected by tariffs. It is anticipated that Russia will
not be content to export her dressed and dyed furs, but as
soon as she has established her dressing and dyeing factories
 she will extend her organisation to embrace the
manufacture of fur garments and trimmings.

The department responsible for the control of fur dumping
 is the Pushnoy Syndicate in Moscow. It owns and runs
already eight factories for the dressing and dyeing of furs
in Kazan, Spask, Sloboda, Astrakhan, Dunilovo-Goritsy
and Murashkino, in addition to the so-called Moscow Experimental
 Works for dressing and dyeing of furs. The Syndicate’s
 agent in Great Britain is the Fur Department of
Arcos Ltd.