Rome, July 14.
No private person or firm may import wheat into Ialy in future, Signor Edmondo Rossoni, Minister of Agriculture, informed the National Grain Committee meeting at the Palazzo Venezia to-day. The order follows, the decision of the Cabinet to make the wheat trade a state monopoly, with a minimum price for Mahan farmer The minimum price is now fixed at 108 Tire a quintal for soft wheat and 129 lire a quintal for hard wheat, Hard wheat is essential for the best kinds of spaghetti and macaroni, Wheat will be bought by provincial authorities and stored in "provinei storing centres," of which there will be one in each provincial capital, Millers are forbidden to grind wheat not acquired from one of these centres.
Signor Rosson! stated that the past cereal year had been marked by exceptionally bad weather, and the harvest this year would not be up to last year's figure of 7,700,000 tons Reuter,
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