COMMERCE IN MAIZE GRAIN 559 



£$ 1 8,690. In addition to this, she also exported maize products CHAP, 

 to the value of £73,458, making a grand total of 1,197,483 XIL 

 muids, of the declared value of £592,148. 



Of these products maize meal was the largest and most 

 valuable export, amounting to £51,302. It is instructive also 

 to note (Table LXXV) that the manufacture of other maize 

 products is developing, and now includes samp, corn-flour, 

 maizena, starch, and hominy-chop. This last item is of 

 growing importance. In 191 1 over 75 per cent of the ex- 

 port of hominy-chop, which reached a total value of £20,000, 

 was exported to Germany for stock-feeding, which is sugges- 

 tive of possibilities to the British feeder. 



It is instructive to note that, as buyers of South African 

 maize, Australia comes first with 242,000 muids, and Germany 

 and Belgium next, each taking over 204,000 muids, while the 

 United Kingdom comes only fourth with 194,000 muids. 



The following figures showing the export of maize and 

 maize-meal in 1911 and 1912 are obtained from the Seventh 

 Annual Statement of the Trade and Shipping of the Union of 

 South Africa, 1 9 1 2 : — 



