The fact that poppy seed is permitted to be grown in certain districts gives the peasants the possibility of openly sowing this seea which gives them a fairly good profit, much more so than any of the ordinary cereals grown by him.
The only export article which really dull and it might be sais, almost dead, is that of furs for which there is no demand at all, the exporters losing heavily though having fo warehouse their stocks to walt for better days.
There is a scarcity of firewood, this making the price high, but 35 the winter has so far been very mild, the demand has not been so arear as last year, otherwise prices would go much higher. They now stand at about 80 kuobl per cubic fathom against about 60 a couple of years ago, and this even though Goals are much more used.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.