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UNITED KINGDOM.

UNITED KINGDOM.
BELFAST.

(From United States Consul Touvelle, Belfast, Ireland.)

I have made diligent inquiry, and from all sources have been

advised that the prospects for the sale of macaroni wheat are not
good in this district.
In reply to an inquiry, I received the following communication
from Mr. H. M. Pollock, Belfast, an authority on the subject, in

which he gives the reasons why macaroni wheat is not found in this

district:
I have given the inquiry you have addressed to me on the subject of macaroni
wheat very careful consideration. I am familiar with this article and have examined
 flour made from it. As you are doubtless aware, the conditions existing
in Ireland governing the consumption of breadstuffs are somewhat anomalous.
Notwithstanding the well-known fact of Ireland’s relative poverty, the inhabitants
of this country consume wheat flour of the very highest grade manufactured in the
United States and there is an almost entire absence of demand for any grade below
the highest. The home milling interest in Ireland is comparatively small, mainly
due to the fact above stated—that there is no market for low-grade flour at home—
and it may therefore be confidently asserted that, relative to its population, Ireland
 is the largest consumer of high-grade American flour of any foreign country.
Bearing the foregoing facts in mind, it is not difficult to understand that such an
article as macaroni wheat (or its product, macaroni flour) would find small favor in
Ireland.
In fact, it is not going far to say that it would be unsalable, even at a much
heavier discount than 10 cents per bushel, which, I understand, is about the estimated
 difference between this class and, say, No. 2 Northern Duluth. It would
not even find favor as a feeding stuff at the same price as corn, as the habits of the
farmers and feeders in Ireland are so conservatively pronounced they prefer to

continue the use of feeds they have been familiar with for years.

WirLiam W. TOUVELLE, Consul.

BELFAST, IRELAND, October 14, 1903

BRADFORD.

(From United States Consul Day, Bradford, England.)

A moderate quantity of macaroni wheat is consumed in this
district and, with the possibility of its being placed on the market
at a cheaper rate—providing the quality is kept up—there is likely
to be a larger demand therefor. Importations are not made by the

merchants direct, but are obtained through brokers at Liverpool
Erastus S. Day, Consul,

BRADFORD, ENGLAND, October 12, 1903

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