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BORDEAUX.

(From United States Consul Tourgée, Bordeaux, France.)

  

I only know of three manufacturers of alimentary paste in this
district. Their names and addresses are as follows:

Veuve Garres Jeune et fils, 120 Route de Bayonne.
Talbot fréres, 78 Rue de la Rauselle.
Louit fréres et Cie., 22 Rue d’Eysines.

These use Italian wheat or flour. Whether they would use
American wheat instead depends on their opinion of its quality and
comparative price. I presume they get their milling done near here.
As to that, they will give me no information, every French manufacturer
 of such goods counting such things as part of the secrets
of his trade.
I do not suppose they will order American wheat for use until
they have given it a fair trial on a considerable scale.
I would advise parties having wheat for sale to write to these
firms, stating fully their wishes in the matter, asking the prices they
pay for Italian wheat or flour, and offering, if they do their own
grinding, to send them gratuitously—that is, f. 0. b. New York—
say, 2,500 kilograms (about 100 bushels) of the American product
with which to make trial of its merits.
All of these parties export largely to the United States. If the
parties wishing to sell will write a letter to each of these firms stating
what they are willing to do I will be glad to deliver the same.
ArLsron W. TourcEr, Consul.
BorpEAUX, FRANCE, October 1.4, 1903.

CALAIS.

Consul J. B. Milner, under date of October 15, 1903, reports that
there are no macaroni mills in the Calais consular district.

GRENOBLE.
(From United States Consul Nason, Grenoble, France.)

In Grenoble there are five or six small manufactories of alimentary
 paste using macaroni wheat, but their output is insignificant
 and consequently their purchases of such grain would be
unimportant. In other localities of the Department of the Isére
there are similar manufactories, as at Allevard, which I have visited,