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other commercial products. New uses are constantly being 
found for maize products, and the demand is rapidly increasing. 
The markets of Northern Europe are at present supplied 
chiefly from the United States, Argentina, and South-east 
Europe. The combined consumption of these countries is 
gradually absorbing more and more of the surplus formerly 
available for export; this year (1914) the United States of 
America, which produces 75 per cent. of the world’s maize 
crop, has begun to import from Argentina for her own 
domestic requirements. The large purchasing markets are 
now looking for new sources of supply. The author points out 
that at present the whole of the African Continent contributes 
only about 1 per cent. of the total world’s production, but 
that it might grow much more, and concludes that as a field 
for maize growing British South Africa is the most suitable 
and most promising undeveloped agricultural area of equal 
size in the whole world. He then discusses the advantages of 
South Africa for maize production. 
The climatic and other peculiar requirements of the maize 
crop, improvement by breeding, and the methods of treatment 
in South Africa are then briefly discussed, as also are the local 
diseases and’ pests, varieties and breeds, and local methods of 
handling and exporting the crop. 
The author concludes with an appeal for the immigration 
into South Africa of capable, trained farmers, with £1,000 to 
£1,500 capital, to develop the maize industry in conjunction 
with stock-farming. 
BURMA RICE. 
By A. C. McKerrat, M.A., B.Sc., 
Deputy Director of Agriculture, Southern Circle, Burma. 
[ ABSTRACT. ] 
It is pointed out that although Burma has only 10,000,000 
acres under rice, as compared with 50,000,000 acres in Bengal, 
it exports no less than 75 per cent. of the total quantity of rice 
shipped from India. This is due to the fact that its population 
is small in comparison with the rice acreage, so that there is 
a large surplus of rice for export. Though the available area 
for rice has now been almost entirely taken up in Burma, there 
are still possibilities of increasing the output by irrigation and 
by intensive cultivation, so that there seems to be no reason to 
ae any falling-off in the Burmese exports in the near 
uture. 
