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MAIZE 



CHAP. 

 XII. 



Table LXV. 



VARIATION IN MAIZE PRICES IN SOUTH AFRICAN MARKETS. 



(Price per muid.) 



(1) Rhodesian Agricultural Journal, Vol. I, No. 5, April, 1904, p. 143. 



(3) ,, ,, „ Vol. Ill, No. 1, October, 1905. 



(4) ,, ,, ,, Vol. Ill, No. 3, February, 1906. 



(5) ,, ,, ,, Vol. IV, No. 1, October, 1906. 



(6) Natal Agricultural Journal, Vol. VII, No. 10, October, 1904, p. 1006. 



(7) ,, „ ,, Vol. X, No. 7, July, igoS, p. 914. 



(8) ,, „ „ Vol. XI, No. 2, February, 1908, p. 22g. 



(9) Circular of the Keeling Agency, Ltd., dated 19 November, igog. 



(10) Transvaal Leader, 21 November, igo8. 

 (ri) Natal Agricultural Journal, March, 1908. 

 (12) ,, „ ,, October, 1908. 



The prices paid by the native are usually good ; in districts 

 remote from rail-communication as much as 60s. per muid was 

 paid in the years 191 1 and 191 2. 



477- Classes of Maize called for in the Local Trade. — For 

 the mills supplying the Rand Mines, the large, flat, white grain 

 produced by Hickory King (8-row), \O-r01v Hickory, Hickory 

 Horsetooth, Mercer, Ladystnith, and similar large-grained dent 

 breeds, is in greatest demand when a choice is offered. This 

 is partly due to " trade fancy," but millers state that there is 

 less bran produced in milling these sorts than is the case with 

 the small grain. Where there is no choice of white flats, any 

 flat white dent is acceptable to the miller in preference to 

 yellows or even to round whites. At one time, the writer is 

 told, the natives employed on the mines would eat yellow mielie 

 meal in preference to white, but now it is the exception for a 

 Rand native to eat any but white meal. Various excuses are 

 given — such as the undoubted difference in flavour between 

 white and yellow meal ; the supposed injurious effect of yellow 



