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IN the Journal of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, vol. xlii., parts ii. and iii., Mr. V. U. Grigorieff writes on the agricultural position of the natives of the Minusin country, Yenisei government. The author carefully examines the economic and legal relations of Russian colonists and aborigines, and considers that agricultural prospects are good, but would be improved by the introduction of scientific methods. The Tartar natives of Minusin have changed but little during centuries of intercourse with Russians, and this persistence of racial characteristics and habits contradicts the opinion of some investigators that the natives will disappear unless Russified. It is interesting to note that cattle-rearing is carried on best on the borders of steppe and forest land, and is not so satisfactory if conducted exclusively in the steppe or the forest.
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Russian Scientific Publications . Nature 77, 498–499 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077498a0
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