5 68 MAIZE 



CHAP, has in previous years received little attention from exporters, 

 " but now that the export railage rate has been made uniform 

 to all the ports, Cape Town is worth consideration, because 

 of her dry summer climate, which should tend to check the 

 development of weevil and grain moth, and to reduce the per- 

 centage of moisture absorbed by the grain, thus making her 

 an especially good summer port of export. Beira is the port 

 for Rhodesia. 



520. Varieties and Classes of Maize Exported. — Of the 

 1,000,000 muids exported by South Africa in 191 1, 8o| percent 

 consisted of the three grades of flat white (73-5 per cent was 

 No. 2 grade and 5 - i per cent was No. 1), and 13-^ per cent of 

 round yellow. The balance was made up in the following 

 order: flat yellow, 27 per cent; round mixed, I -3 percent; 

 below grade, -g per cent ; round white, 7 per cent ; and flat 

 mixed, -3 per cent. The details are given in Table LXXXI. 



521. Grading at the Ports. — Graders are established at each 

 of the exporting ports, and are under the direction and control 

 of the Chief Inspector of Grain of the Union Department of 

 Agriculture ; all grain exported must pass through their hands. 

 Brown-Duvel moisture testers are placed in their offices and 

 have proved of inestimable value in determining the moisture- 

 content of the grain offered for export. During the season 

 191 1, 147,302 bags of maize were rejected at the ports as 

 wet or mouldy. It is found that maize railed from the 

 interior Provinces in a wet condition is usually more or less 

 musty on arrival at Cape ports, whilst wet maize railed to 

 Durban does not have time to become musty, owing to the 

 shorter railway journey. Warnings against sending wet maize 

 to the ports are issued in all the leading South African news- 

 papers and journals. The Annual Maize Committee (191 1) 

 recommended that the Government should discourage the ex- 

 port of kiln-dried maize, and the Regulations were accord- 

 ingly amended. 



522. Effect of Grading at the Ports. — The grading regula- 

 tions enforced at the South African ports during the season 

 1912-13 gave great satisfaction in the English market, and the 

 writer was urged by merchants on the Baltic, Mark Lane, and 

 Liverpool Exchanges to impress upon the Government the 

 importance of not relaxing these regulations one jot. 



