ITALY. 45

I inclose extracts from a letter from one of the largest manufacturers in Italy,
and send also a sample of crude American wheat, with a sample of the wheat
ground, and a sample of macaroni made from the same. It has been suggested to
me that if the United States Government would admit free of duty, or at least at a
lower tax than the present tariff, macaroni made from American wheat, a market
for our wheat would be opened in competition with that of Russia and the East.
The present tariff on 1,000 pounds of macaroni is $15, or 114 cents per pound; under
the plan proposed,

60 per cent of the said 1,000 pounds would enter free, leaving 40
Per cent to be t

axed at the present rate of 115 cents per pound, making on the 1,000
pounds a tax of $6, instead of $15. It should be remembered in this connection
that the Italian manufacturer of macaroni, under the scheme proposed, would have
to pay freight from the United States to Italy, and

also pay freight on the same
wheat manufactured into m

acaroni and transported to the United States.

Josern E. HAYDEN, Consul.
CASTELLAMARE DI STABIA, May 21, 1901.

CATANIA.

(From United States Consul Heingartner, Catania, Italy.)

The present price of Russian wheat c.
ton of 2,204 pounds.
The freight from New York to Catania, as ¢

juoted by steamship
agents here, is 2s. (48.6 cents) per quarter, which equals $2.16 per

This, added to the present wheat quotations in
New York (8g cents), would

roni wheat with this port.
The names
wheat are:

i. f. Catania is $29.92 per

ton of 2,204 pounds.
seem to preclude any business in macaof
 the mills and millers in my district using hard
Catania.—Fratelli P

Giuseppe Gr.
zio Nicotra,

rinzi, Molino la Providenza, Molino a vapore Santa Lucia,
asso Finocchiaro (Premiato stabilimento Madonna della Guardia), Ora-Societa
 molino a cilindri
Syracuse.—Fratelli Cornigli
Misterbianco,—Fr

, and Sgranatajo.
ano.

ancesco Monaco e figli.
Aci-Reale.—Rosario Samperi e figli.

Agents of steamship companies in the New York-Mediteranean

trade at New York are: Phelps Bros. & Co., Hirzel Feltman & Co.,
and the agency of the Prince Line.
ALEXANDER HEINGARTNER,
CaTania, ITALY, October 20, 1903. Consul.

FLORENCE.
(From United States Consul Keene, Florence, Italy.)
The consumption of macaroni in this consular district by for
€Xceeds the production. Flour paste for soup is supplied by the
districts of Naples, Genoa, and Leghorn, whence there is a large