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other commercial products. New uses are constantly being- 

 found for maize products, and the demand is rapidly increasing. 



The markets of Northern Europe are at present supplied 

 chiefly from the United States, Argentina, and South-east 

 Europe. The combined consumption of these countries is 

 gradually absorbing more and more of the surplus formerly 

 available for export; this year (1914) the United States of 

 America, which produces 75 per cent, of the world's maize 

 crop, has begun to import from Argentina for her own 

 domestic requirements. The large purchasing markets are 

 now looking for new sources of supply. The author points out 

 that at present the whole of the African Continent contributes 

 only about I per cent, of the total world's production, but 

 that it might grow much more, and concludes that as a field 

 for maize growing British South Africa is the most suitable 

 and most promising undeveloped agricultural area of equal 

 size in the whole world. He then discusses the advantages of 

 South Africa for maize production. 



The climatic and other peculiar requirements of the maize 

 crop, improvement by breeding, and the methods of treatment 

 in South Africa are then briefly discussed, as also are the local 

 diseases and pests, varieties and breeds, and local methods of 

 handling and exporting the crop. 



The author concludes with an appeal for the immigration 

 into South Africa of capable, trained farmers, with 1,000 to 

 1,500 capital, to develop the maize industry in conjunction 

 with stock-farming. 



BURMA RICE. 



By A. C. MCKERRAL, M.A., B.Sc., 

 Deputy Director of Agriculture, Southern Circle, Burma. 



[ABSTRACT.] 



It is pointed out that although Burma has only 10,000,000 

 acres under rice, as compared with 50,000,000 acres in Bengal, 

 it exports no less than 75 per cent, of the total quantity of rice 

 shipped from India. This is due to the fact that its population 

 is small in comparison with the rice acreage, so that there is 

 a large surplus of rice for export. Though the available area 

 for rice has now been almost entirely taken up in Burma, there 

 are still possibilities of increasing the output by irrigation and 

 by intensive cultivation, so that there seems to be no reason to 

 expect any falling-off in the Burmese exports in the near 

 future. 



