 

 

50 MACARONI WHEAT IN FOREIGN MARKETS.

Now, the above table shows that the market price of wheat in
New York is much higher than that at Odessa, and, under this circumstance,
 I do not see how our wheat can be sold to Italian buyers,
who naturally prefer the cheaper wheat.
The Odessa sellers, on account of the shorter distance, have to
sustain less freight expenses to ship their wheat to Italy than our
sellers, who therefore can not compete with the Odessa market
unless they succeed in getting cheaper freight rates from Chicago or
make sacrifices to secure a new market.
James JoHNsSTON, Consul.
PaLErMO, ITALY, October 26, 1903.

TURIN.
(From United States Consul Cuneo, Turin, Italy.)

I have made diligent inquiries as to the prospect of utilizing
American hard wheat for macaroni purposes in this section of Italy.
The flour used in making macaroni is called ““semola” and is made
from very hard wheat grown in southern Italy and from Taganrog,”
a brand of wheat grown in southern Russia. There is also considerable
 wheat for this purpose imported from Bombay.
The wheat crop in this section of Italy this year is reported fair,
But not a bushel of it will be used for macaroni, it being too soft.
The high tariff on wheat, still higher rates on flour, and the high
transportation charges work unfavorably for American wheat finding
a market in this Province.
There are many flouring mills in Turin, ten of which are of great
capacity, while smaller ones may be found throughout the consular
district. © I am informed, however, that not one of them grinds a
bushel for macaroni purposes.
Immense quantities of American wheat are imported into Turin—
red winter, especially—when prices are low.
Macaroni in very large quantities is made in this city, but the
flour is brought from Genoa.
Pierro CUNEO, Consul.
TuriN, ItavLy, October 15, 1903

(Markt &amp; Co., New York, to the Department of Commerce and Labor.)

The Honorable Secretary Wilson has published, as we understand
from one of our agencies in Japan, an article seeking through the
consular service a suitable market for macaroni wheat, a hard grain