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MAGDEBURG.
(From United States Consul Me Kellip, Magdeburg, Germany.)

On receipt of the Department circular, I communicated with the
leading dealers in my district and the following report is based upon
the information received therefrom.
It may be said that considerable quantities of macaroni wheat
are used in Germany, although the number of mills engaged in its
manufacture is comparatively small.
In the Magdeburg consular district the largest |
Wesermuehlen Aktiengesellschaft, in H
makes a

buyer is the
ameln-on-the-Weser, which
specialty of milling macaroni wheat (called H
and Richard Banse, of Meisdorf-in-the-H

The latter gentleman writes me t

artweizen),
arz.
hat he uses over 2,000 tons (x
ton=z,205 pounds) yearly in the manufacture of
used for soups and food, and the finer
roni. He says that the groats for
yellow color and glisten; there

groats, which are
sorts for noodles and macathis
 purpose must be of a rich
fore, the wheat must be of a brown
color and glassy appearance. Mr. Banse has up to the present time
imported his macaroni wheat

from South Russia and occasionally
from Argentina and Chile

, and says—as do the others with whom I

have been in communication on the subject—that he can not tell

whether the American wheat would

be suitable for his purpose without
 seeing samples of it, and that the terms upon which it is offered
must be as advantageous as those of the Russian exporters.
The price for Russian macaroni wheat on the 20th of the present
month ranged from 132 to 134 marks ($31.41 to $31.89) per ton of
2,205 pounds c. i. f. Hamburg.
The Wesermuehlen Aktiengesel
haps uses more macar
informs me that it h

Ischaft, of Hameln, which peroni
 wheat than any other mill in this district,

as had unfortunate experiences with the American
 product, because, alt}

tion, they were not,
terms were such th
turned out to be of
inspected. Further
will only

ough samples were furnished for inspechowever,
 made the basis of the sale, and the
at no redress could be had if the wheat delivered
an inferior quality or not so good as the sample
, that as far as the proprietors are concerned they
take into consideration the purchase of American wheat
when it is sold strictly according to sample and when the sellers bind
themselves, in case the delivered grain does not turn out to be as
good as the sample, to make good the loss according to the difference
 in value, to be passed upon and decided by the London Board
of Arbitration. As in the production of good groats, so much
depends upon the quality of the wheat that buyers can easily"
f money if the shipments turn out to be of an inmuch
 below the inspected sample upon which the

lose large sums o
ferior quality or

 

  