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Rh ISRAEL M. PARR.

REVIEW of the Four and Meal trade naturally follows that of Grain. THe requirements of merchants engaged in the Breadstuffs trade, led to the establishment of the Corn and Flour Exchange, where this business is exclusively transacted.

The high character and position of the merchants engaged in this trade in Baltimore, is proverbial, and excelled nowhere in America. Baltimore situated in the centre of a great Wheat growing country, has always maintained the first-class reputation as a Flour market. The Grain is obtained principally from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and the West. The manufacturing capacity of our city is extensive. Large and substantial Mills, with all modern improvements, are located upon powerful streams within and contiguous to the city; and several large Steam Mills of great power are favorably located. The great drought of the past few years, the consequent diminution of water, and its interference with milling operations, have caused some proprietors of Mills to add to their water-power, steam engines to supply the constantly increasing demands. The Flour manufactured in Baltimore, from the high grade and fancy Maryland and Virginia Wheat, is of well-known superior quality, and wherever introduced maintains this reputation. The highest grade for family use, such as the famous “Patapsco” brand and others well-known, are unsurpassed, if ever equalled in the world, and have become the standard in markets, for the best grades.

A very high grade of “Strong Flour,” a quality well-known to the trade and to bakers, is also manufactured with great care in this city for shipment to Brazil and other South American ports. This Flour is capable of standing long voyages to the tropics. Its quality due to the peculiarity of the