 

22 MACARONI WHEAT IN FOREIGN MARKETS.

de la République, have also been greatly interested in this subject.
Other firms with whom correspondence might be undertaken are:
Louis Dreyfus et Cie., 50, Rue Breteuil.
N. Couppa, 23, Rue de I’Arsenal.
J. Hubscher, 5, Cours St. Louis.
Allatini et Cie., 2, Rue St. Jacques.
Ralli Brothers, 12, Allées des Capucines.
John Fachiri, 75, Rue Sylvabelle.
ROBERT P. SKINNER,
MARSEILLES, FRANCE, October 20, 1903. Consul-General.

Under date of September 10, 1903, and previous to the issuance
of the Department circular, United States Consul Robert P. Skinner,
Marseilles, France, reported that the Marseilles hard-wheat import
trade continued deeply interested in the effort of the farmers of the
United States to grow a merchantable macaroni wheat, and that
the samples received were eminently satisfactory, but as there had
been no surplus of any consequence to ship there was nothing new
to be said.

NANTES.
(From United States Consul Ridgely, Nantes, France.)
In all western France, as far as I can learn, there is but one
macaroni factory—at Nantes—and it is rather a small establishment,
manufacturing macaroni, vermicelli, and the other products of
semolina. Semolina (in French, semoule) is the grindings of blé
dur (hard wheat), or macaroni wheat. Now, while there is a considerable
 market in Nantes for semoule, there is no market here at
all for the hard wheat from which it is ground, for the reason that
none of the mills at Nantes grind hard wheat.
The macaroni factory to which I have referred gets its supply
 of semoule from Marseilles and Havre, at both. of which
cities there are various minoteries grinding hard wheat. Persons
with whom I discussed the matter here say that they doubt that
there is sufficient gluten in American wheat to make good macaroni
semoule. They also say that the best wheat for this purpose comes
from Russia and Africa.
The establishments at Marseilles and Havre, which principally
supply this market with the products of hard wheat, are the Grands
Moulins de Corbeille, Havre; Messrs. Joseph Maurel, 4, Boulevard
de la Liberté, Marseilles:

: M. Fonquet, 6, Boulevard Dugommier,
Marseilles; and M. Maccary, 3, Rue Villeneuve, Marseilles.
Benj. H. RipGeLy, Consul.
NanTES, FRANCE, October 22, 1903.

 