CONTENTS 



SECTION 



454. Importance of drying-out the grain 



455. Loss of weight in drying 



456. Variation in moisture-content is not identical with 



weight due to change of moisture-content 



457. Storage in the husk 



458. Storage of husked maize 



459. Storage of shelled grain 



460. Kaffir method of storage 



461. Need for public maize stores or silos in South Africa 



462. Yield of grain from a given measure of ears 



463. Country damage • 



Pests of Stored Grain. 



464. Losses accruing from storage of grain 



465. Insects injurious to stored grain 



466. Weevils .... 



467. Angoumois grain-moth 



468. Remedies for insect pests . 



469. Rats and mice in maize stores 



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CHAPTER XII. 



THE COMMERCE IN MAIZE GRAIN. 



470. Time of arrival of the South African crop 



471. Local markets ..... 



472. The mines trade ..... 



473. Consumption on the Kimberley Mines 



474. Cape stock-farmers .... 



475. The native trade .... 



476. Local prices ..... 



477. Classes of maize called for in the local trad 



478. Comparative local prices of maize classes 

 47g. Transvaal maize imports 



480. Rapid increase in production 



481. Importance of the export trade . 



482. Oversea markets ..... 



483. European consumption 



484. Possibility of developing trade with Canada 



485. Egypt as a possible market . 



486. India .... . . 



487. Australia 



488. Prices in European markets 



489. Prices on the English market, 1880 to 1908 

 4go. The high London prices of 1907-8 

 4gi. Early export prices for South African maize 



492. Changing prices per quarter to prices per muid 



493. Changing prices per 1,000 kilos to prices per muid 



494. Market reports ....... 



495. Prices affected by the world's supply and demand 



496. Some factors which control prices in the world's mai 



497. The world's supply of maize .... 



498. Early attempts at an export maize trade from South 



499. Natal Government enterprise 



500. Reduction in freight rates . 



501. Government control of export 



502. Effect of good prices in stimulating trade 



503. Cause of abnormal prices . 



504. Natal shipments, 1907 .... 



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