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14 MACARONI WHEAT. IN FOREIGN MARKETS.

per cent is necessary to make a good flour. This hard wheat,
together with that demanded for macaroni and edible pastes generally,
 will always be imported, despite large home yields and high
foreign prices. Since the quantity of gluten depends less upon variety
 than upon the natural conditions of soil and cultivation, France
can not grow hard wheat. Some of the hard varieties of Algeria
and Russia, when cultivated in the climate of Paris, lose their richness
 of gluten. Members of the Academy of Science say that the
gluten increases very slowly with notable augmentation of azotic
fertilizers, and that it diminishes as the quantity of phosphoric acid
applied to the wheat increases. Phosphoric acid develops the production
 of starch, which means correlatively a diminution of gluten.
It is well known that phosphoric fertilizers are mostly used to augment
 the yield, and careful studies show that in the north of France,
where these fertilizers are so abundantly employed, the wheat of
fifty years ago was very much richer in gluten than that of to-day.

PRICE.

The latest quotations in Rouen for wheat averaging from 75 to
77 kilograms (165.35 to 169.75 pounds) per hectoliter (2.838 bushels),
present delivery, is zo.g5 francs ($4.043) per 100 kilograms (220.46
pounds) net; for November-December delivery, 20.65 to 20.70 francs
($3-985 to $3.995)-These

 are also the present figures on the Paris Bourse.

ROUEN GRAIN MERCHANTS.
Collet, 33, Quai de Paris.
Flécheux, 89, Route de Darnétal.
Fouré, 2, Place Barthélemy.
Gazengel, 2, Rue Pannevert.
H. Genestal et fils, 5, Rue Jeanne d’Arc.
Goldstiick, Hainzé et Cie., Quai du Havre.
Laurent fils, 19-21, Rue Martainville.
H. Lubbe, 7, Rue Blosseville.
Rochette et Vaudour, Rue d'Harcourt.
Buquet Oncle et Nevue, 1, Rue Préfontaine.
Grands Moulins de Corbeil, 39, Rue Benoist.

HOW AMERICAN GOODS REACH ROUEN.

In the absence of direct steamship communication, merchandise
from the United States for this consular district, with few exceptions,
comes through Havre or by way of Paris.
Most of the edible pastes of this country are manufactured in
southern France, Marseilles being the chief center.
TaHORNWELL HAYNES, Consul.
RouEN, FRANCE, October 12, 1903.