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Corn In England

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
December
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Eiiglish ideas of the value of Indian cor ti are advaucing rapidly, as may be inferred from thefollowiug, from the Mark Lane Express : " Maize is gettiug into extcns-ivd consumption for feeding cattle. The price was for a long time below its actual value for feedipg purposes, but the graziers have discovered its valuable properties, and maize is no longer neglected on the maiket at 28s. or 29j. per quarter. Wc have an idea, too, that tbo millers have fouud that they can nse a portion of it. especia) ly of the white earn, without any mattriul iujuryto the flonr. Be this as it may, the demand for mnizo increases, and the price ha risen to 38s. por quarter for the white and 36s. for yeilow. In America the darker is prelerred for domestie purposes, in whieh, in various ways, it is largely oonsumed by families. The amouni imported during the lirst nine months of the year 1873 was 15,030,534 cwts , against 15,454,792 cwts. in the same period of the present year, being an increase of 424,228 cwts.

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Old News
Michigan Argus