COMMERCE IN MAIZE GRAIN 



5°3 



meal on the digestive system, etc. But in view of the large 

 amount of yellow " corn-meal " consumed in the United States, 

 one is scarcely prepared to accept these as valid reasons ; it 

 seems more probable that the real cause is the tendency of the 

 native to imitate the white man, and that as the white man in 

 South Africa eats only white mielie meal, the native thinks 

 he ought to do so too. The reason may also be partly com- 

 mercial ; millers prefer to mill only one colour of maize, and 

 may have been instrumental in gradually inducing the mine 

 natives to use white meal, not only for that reason, but also 

 because white maize is usually cheaper than yellow in the 

 Johannesburg market. 



CHAP. 

 XII. 



Table LXVI. 

 COMPARATIVE LOCAL PRICES OF MAIZE CLASSES. 



'Small white flat, 8/- to 8/3. 



