FTPORTS OF BRITISH FLOUR TO BRAZIL.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I have obtained from your valued correspondent, Mr. Broomhall, particulars of this brilliant trade which is given as a proof of the success of British milling under modern condi- tions. The export of British-milled flour to Brazil seems to have begun in 1896, when the total export was five hundred and sixty sacks of two hundred and eighty pounds. It reached its maximum in the following year, when it got up to thirty-two thousand sacks, since which time it has fallen off pretty steadily until it has dwindled down to sixteen hundred sacks in 1902, a mere bagatelle, con- sidering, as Mr. Broomhall says, that Liverpool alone makes seventy thousand sacks per week of six days. Is Mr. Booth's
letter a colossal joke P—I am, Sir, 8cc., JOHN J. WHITE.
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