 

 

40 MACARONI WHEAT IN FOREIGN MARKETS.

A direct trade with the United States could only be possible, so I
am informed, if American wheat were delivered f. o. b. here at from
$1 to $1.25 per ton cheaper than the German wheat—unloading at
German port, reshipping, and transport being at the risk of the
shippers. The price of German wheat at Weimar is $35.70 to $36.18
per ton (2,204.6 pounds); American wheat, Kansas No. 2, or hard
winter No. 2, is $42.84 to $43.79 per ton. :
If the firms interested would send me the price of wheat f. o. b.
Hamburg or Bremen, I could refer them to millers who are willing
to buy if prices are satisfactory.
The German duty on American wheat is 5 marks ($1.19) and on
flour 10.50 marks ($2.50) per 100 kilograms (220 pounds).
Taos. Ewing MooRrE, Consul.
WEIMAR, GERMANY, October 29, 1903.

WURTTEMBERG.

(From United States Consul Ozmun, Stuttgart, Germany.)
Mr. Kreglinger, the president of the millers’ association of this
city, informs me that there exists in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg a
very good market for macaroni wheat, or ‘‘hard wheat,” as it is
known here, and that, provided the prices and quality were competitive,
 there would be no difficulty in disposing of many hundred
thousand pounds of this product, but he could give me no exact idea
as to the quantity.
One of the chief articles of food in Wurttemberg is a sort of paste
made from this wheat, called ‘“nudln;” in fact, Swabia is known for
its ‘“spitzle,” a dish made from the nudln.
There exists in almost every village and city a good number of
nudln factories. Stuttgart, with a population of 200,000 people,
has 45 of these factories. Judging from this, there might easily be
from 700 to 800 of these factories in this Kingdom of, say, 2,000,000
people.
This kind of wheat is not raised in Wurttemberg at all, but is
imported mostly from France and Hungary and to some extent from
Russia. It is imported as wheat and ground by the Wurttemberg
millers. The largest wheat market in southwestern Germany is at
Mannheim.
If samples and prices were sent directly either to Mr. Kreglinger,
president of the millers’ association in Stuttgart, or to me, there
appears to be every indication of finding a good market for this
wheat.
Epwarp H. Ozmun, Consul.
STUTTGART, GERMANY, November 7, 1903.