To the Editor of the "Norra-Curna Dairy News."
Sir,—In your editorial under the above headline in today's issue a reference is made to the first real transaction between Russia and the United States which has taken place recently and in which the Russian furs were transacted.
Possessing a fair knowledge. of transaction in Russian furs I may positively state that the ongmentioned in the paper is not the first transaction of the kind which has taken place between Russia and other countries. In April last a fur auction was held at Chita in which Yen 2,250,000 worth of Siberian furs were disposed of by the Siberian Committee for the foreign trade, practically all furs being sold to a British firm.
At the end of 1921 there were two fur auctions at Chita in which not less than Yen 3 million worth of furs were disposed of by the same Soviet Government institution, in
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