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Nature of flour — 



Color — low, dark grey. 



Streniifth, i.e., quarts of water absorbed per sack 

 of 200 lbs.— 48. 



Percentage of dry gluten — 11 32. 



Notes. 



Bran, fairly clean ; flour has a tendency to cling. 

 Pollard, clean. Break-flour, 245 per cent. 

 Semolina, yellowish and gritty. 



This cannot be called a first-class milling wheat. It is 

 somewhat hard to mill owing to the difiiculty of 

 cleaning the bran and of obtaining a sufficiently high 

 proportion of flour. The flour is low in color and 

 would not command the highest price on that account. 

 The proportion of gluten is good and the strength 

 fair, but Jt is less strong than one would expect from 

 this class of grain. 



In addition to this, a similar sample was submitted to a leading- 

 practical miller for his opinion, and he reported as follows: — 



"It weighs 02 lb. to the imperial bushel, is easily milled, 

 gives a fair quantity of good flour, which makes a 

 good springy dough. Compared with a flour made 

 from imported wheat it stood very favourably, 

 absorbing more water in the ratio of 17 to 16. It 

 had gluten 20"8 per cent., while the imported had 

 less than 15. The strength of the ' Rerraf gluten 

 was 43, compaied to 30 in the other. Ifc is excellent." 



In conclusion, a description of the ear and the grain may be given. 

 The heads are bald, close, square, smooth, regular, averaging about 4 

 inches in length, of a pale biscuit colour, blunt at the tip and slightly 

 tapering at the base. The grain is rather small, of medium length, 

 straight, plump, round-bosomed, yellowish, crease about half the depth 

 of the grain, and mealy to liorny in cross-section. 



Queen's Jubilee. 



This wheat was not grown at Port Fairy in 1902, but a bag of it 

 was sent from the Mallee by Mr. Cobham, who grew it there, to his 

 father, to try it on his farm near Reading, England. The results were 

 very satisfactory, as appears from the following account: — " You will 

 be glad to hear your Queen's Jubilee has done well. It has yielded 

 more than 4 quarters (32 bushels) to the acre, and the quality is very 

 good. It weighs 65 lbs. to the bushel, and seems to be all flour and 

 scarcely any skin. It is a pretty wheat to look at, and I am going to 

 sow it again, when perhaps it will do better still. 62 lbs. to the 

 bushel is about the average here, but a good average." 



