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wheat would commend itself to those millers who want to 

 produce soft white flour. It would find a ready sale, say in 

 Ireland, or some parts of the N. E. of England, or in other parts 

 in the absence of English or Australian w^heats, and it may be good 

 for biscuit and pudding making, but to me, as a miller, making 

 bread flour for tlie London district, it is not a desirable type of 

 Indian wheat. It behaves poorly in milling after conditioning, 

 and this remark applies to all of them, particularly to the Orai 

 and Lyallpur lots. Some of the lots contain a proportion of trans- 

 lucent berries. They help the milling and improve the results 

 in bread, but diminish the mere whiteness of the flour. The baking 

 trials leave them very much in the same order as that I assigned 

 to them by appearance, except that the poor looking Lyallpur 

 lot made better bread than its appearance led me to expect, and 

 the Bankipore yielded the worst bread of all on each trial. Some 

 of them, notably the 3 at the head of the list, and in particular the 

 Cawnpore lot, made loaves of good external appearance ; the rest 

 yielded loaves with a pale sickly crust, and are, in my opinion, 

 wheats which a British miller would not willingly use by them- 

 selves for any sort of bread flour. The CWnpore lot also yielded 

 bread of relatively good, but still poor flavour. For my own guid- 

 ance, I have for many years recorded my opinion of flours in marks, 

 as a more convenient means of recording or expressing opinion 

 than w^ords, and though the scale adopted is a purely arbitrary one, 

 and expresses nobody's opinions but those of the people imme- 

 diately concerned in the baking operations so recorded, it may 

 make the comparisons more intelhgible if I give' them herein, 

 ' Stability ' means the facility with which large masses of dough 

 can be handled by the baker, ' strength ' the volume and shape 

 of loaf. 



Stability. Strength. 



No. II. Cawnpore . . . . 84 75 



„ 15. Piisa .. ..84 75 



,, 12. Partabgarh . . . . 82 75 



,, 13. Dumraon . . . . 78 63 



