 

30 MACARONI WHEAT IN FOREIGN MARKETS.

For the transaction of business it is essential that the conditions are on a safe
basis, viz, purchases to be made from actual samples. The present system of dealing
 by means of certificates is detrimental to growth of importations.

LUDWIGSHAFENER WALZMUEHLE.
LUDWIGSHAFEN AM RHEIN November 6 1Q03.
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DRESDEN.

United States Consul-General C. L. Cole, of Dresden, Germany,
under date of October 17, 1903, reports:
There are only three macaroni and noodle manufacturers in this
consular district, whose business does notextend beyond the city limits.
I have been informed that Russian wheat is preferred, and that hardly
any American wheat is used here. What little is used is bought of
the Hamburg importing mills, and none is imported direct into this
district.

DUSSELDORF.
(From United States Consul Lieber, Diisseldorf, Germany.)

There is no class or brand of wheat known by the corn dealers
of Diisseldorf as macaroni wheat and there are no manufacturers of
macaroni or similar articles in Rhineland or Westphalia, though
there are quite a number in southern Germany whose goods are consumed
 in these Provinces. Probably the wheat referred to is of
hard, glutinous quality, and the only way for American firms to sell
it to this country would be to correspond with the large dealers here
and offer the goods to them.
No guess can be made as to the probability whether the brand
referred to can be imported into this part of Germany. All depends
on the quality and the price of the goods.
One large wholesale dealer who has been importing American
cereals for many years in very considerable quantities complained to
me that the quality of wheat supplied, largely from Port Arthur inspection,
 is of such inferior quality that German importers are unable
to live up to their contracts.
Another dealer told me that the probabilities for American wheat
would be very small for this season, because quantity and quality of
Russian and Roumanian wheat were excellent this year and fully
sufficient to supply the German market.
P. LieBer, Consul.
DUSSELDORF, GERMANY, October 13, 1903.