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MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I903. 



MILLING EXPERIMENT NO. 6. 



At Houlton. Blue Stem wheat grown in the Xorthwest and 

 imported by E. Merritt & Sons in 1901. This wheat is the par- 

 ent of that (Xo. 6617) used in milling experiment Xo. 5. The 

 wheat used in the experiment weighed 898 pounds. The result 

 of the milling test, calculated for 100 pounds of wheat, and the 

 analyses of the wheat and the milling products, are given in the 

 tables which follow. 



PRODUCTS OBTAINED AT HOULTON, MAISE, FROM MILLING ONE HUN- 

 DRED POUNDS OF NORTHWESTERN GROWN BLUE STEM WHEAT AND 

 THE DISTRIBUTION OF NITROGEN THEREIN. 



03 5 



Wheat and its Milling Products. 



Distribution of 

 Nitrogen. 



Kind. 



Ainount. I By weight. By percent. 



66-2-2lWbeat 



6623 Patent flour 



0624 Second grade flour 

 Total flour 



6625 Middlings 



6626 



Bran 



Total offals. 



Total products 



Pounds. 



100.0 



57.5 



15.3 



72.8 



13.1 

 14.1 

 27.2 



100.0 



Pounds. 



2.55 



1.31 



.39 



1.70 



.38 

 .42 



.80 



2.50 



Per cent. 



100.0 

 52.4 

 15.6 

 68.0 



15.2 



16.8 

 32.0 



100.0 



COMPOSITION OF NORTHWESTERN GROWN BLUE STEM WHEAT AND 

 MILLING PRODUCTS OBTAINED AT HOULTON, MAINE, CALCULATED 

 TO WATER CONTENT AT TIME OF MILLING AND TO THE WATER 

 FREE BASIS. 



