The Out-Look for the Grain Trade.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 70, 24 February 1885, Page 4

The Out-Look for the Gra in Trade.

A gentleman, who; has had c 6n n siderable .experience as a flour-miller both m New Zealand and the Old Country, and who has at present the management of a large mill m the South Inland, speaking, of the bugbear " Indian wheat is to Colonial [growers, gives it.as :his.opiniou that Indian wheat will never .find much i favour m the Hofne market, as it is of too harsh^a, 'quality. But, ;in addition to thjs,. /v he says that tjie .:New /Zealand, cereal' will never .coinmand'the price its i worth merjjts till some; radical change is made;in , the • mode of ■ shipping. He states. •.that the; different lots, before they "are offered for sale, become [so. ■thoroughly mixed that purchasers can never rely on 1 getting, wheat according to sample,' 'and therefore ■if ill hot bid'anything lilce'tji'e ! jprice 'B& ' obtained if oy6ts.. were^eVtaiii ; of ; getting ' Itneiir' wheat according to sample. This gentle* ; iria'n, whose oppinfon 'has considerable - weight-,* 'also • thitiks tjie. variety of wheajC chiefly, gtown jin 'the^biony;' 'viiz ; Tuskah' ! and Hufoter's white, are riot tne' best adapted for ; thp -voyage, Home, and he . recommends, ; Jt|ie : large mercantile companies to import ,a few samples ;pf the. J^anitpba and Scotch* J?iFe for distribution among) farmers, the ; .major4jty> of whom, probably would bje unable . to ■ obtain - it ■ for » them- , selves. .-..• '■ .■-;■•: ••. > ■■■■■■<■■■> ■>■'•■ '■■ . - >; -He thinks that- NewZealandrieed '■ have no fear >of being driven out 6f the English inarkerbykhy of $c other 'countries aj ; present compejt'lng'fbr tfte trade; if his.reccbmrheoVlatidhs be'adHerea to. :. The Indian article, as already seated, lie "considers, tqo.-^arsh, an^^as t for America, as' the years roll on, she 'will export less and less in ■ v proportion to ; tHe growth of her. .population. Wheat besides^ pan' be landed at Home aju mos't'as cheaply 'from'' New Zealand as America, for we s arerjn close moximity to the sea,' while m the fatter : Coufttry.' 'the" lias to' be < carried inihieW distances by land. 'On the Whole, he thmks the 'put-look' for tn'e gfain^growing industry , m j^ew ' Zealand js i not qpite sp black as has often 'laden represented.