The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-07-05
Is FLOUR CHEAPER IN ENGLAND
THAN HERE2

The export trade in flour from the
Eastern seaDorts has within the past
year or two increased TO large proper.
tons, and has been seriously delrimen.
tai to the shipment OF wheat, which
has fallen of corespondingly with the
growth of the flour trade. Flour is
placed on the cars at the mills and
through bills of lading are gwen which
sends it directly to its foreign destina-
ton. a large portion of the flour of
the Baltimore trade comes here on
these through bills, and is transferred
from the trans to steamers that receive
and transport 1t. Is stated as fact on
Change that although the commodity
IS transported distance of 4 900 miles
hour OF the same standard grade is sold
IN London fifty sentS cheaper per barrel
than IN New York. This, they saw.
shows an Abnormal condition and is
evidence that the market here is held
up until all that consumption REQUIRES
Is disposed OF, when the surplus is ship
ped by means of the ADVANTAGES
offered by the transportation COM
panies.
1t IS stated in verifcation that
freight rates make no diferance in the
prices obtainable nor in relative vaIues
at the mills and in markets other
than those adjacent to the mills
and that it is a well-known and
acknowledged fact that millers shin
their surplus at cost of grinding
and stittlY maintain home values. Simon
Gebhard, Of Dayton, Ohio, said at the
National Millers' Convention held at
Buffalo, that the milers only shipped
their surplus to commission merchants
when they had no further demand
which their own efforts could stimulate
Tor lots direct, and then blamed the
merchants because they could not sell
on glutted market. The following
table OF the exports froms the United
States from all ports shows to what
extent this trade has grown in the
last three years as compared with the
shipments of wheat during the same
period. In 1888 the shipment of flour
was I1,oS4,435 barrels; for the same
year o2,339,594 bushels of wheat were
exported. In 1889 the amounts were
0,29o,I46 barrels of flour, 42,o16,247
bushels OF wheat. In 1890, 11,135,158
barrels Of flour, 5o,G44625 bushels of
wheat. The following extract makes a
of the same subject:
"The British consul at Baltimore in
his last report describes what he calls
the disintegration OF the grain trade
rom the United States. He says the
statistics show that the export of flour
rom great Atlantic ports exceeds the
shipments of wheat by nearly 125 per
2ent.-that is, assuming a barrel of ..
lour to be equivalent to a bushers of
sraln. This substitution of flour for
wheat is the result of economical
,auses. OF course, in the condition of
lour wheat can be conveyed over long d
Instances by sea and land much more ..
:heaPly, and, moreover, divested of l.
ran, screenings and dirt. Under the
lew system the neceities of the market
AVE produced means suitable for the
The granting of bills of :
anlng at the mill door establishes a Il
tile to the flour which accompanies it T.
pom its travels and identifies it on ar !
wal at It's destination. The brand of :
ne miller guarantees its quality and the >.
arrler lnsures its delivery. Thus the :
nller is master OF the situation, and his Il
our finds its way into every village in Il
and will continue TO do so ,
ing as he treats his customers with =
ommon honesty and they can depend - -
n the quality of his stuff. The beef -
nd pork packers were at one time in ~
ossesslon OF the English market, but "
'st 1t through their dishonest greed. "
this moment their productions are
osolutely excluded from many coun- " .:
les, and the American packer is sup. :. -
ianted by foreigners, who now control -->
lie business which was at one time
most exclusely American. The large "
crease in wheat production all over
e world has depived the farmer of hs
'ohtab!e markets. The price of wheat III
Is decline, never again to be restored, II
Id what comptltlon there may be is "i
lily such as the miller creates.-BaL. eq
mere SIN. III