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by the senses of touch and sight : the method by wliich bakers in 

 commerce ahiiost invariably jndge the flours they use. Indeed, 

 I would Hke to emphasize the point, that I have deliberately chosen 

 to test, according to commercial methods, all the Indian wheats 

 I have handled on an experimental scale, for it seems to me of great 

 importance to apply, even to these small lots, the methods which 

 will be used in commerce in handling shiploads ultimately. Cer- 

 tain forms of laboratory work may assist the miller and baker to 

 obtain optimum results in the mill and bakehouse, and I am very 

 keen on seeking to apply such knowledge to commerce, but in the 

 present state of knowledge such work may sometimes mislead, and 

 for the purposes now in view, I have carefully appHed well-knoAvn 

 commercial methods and based my judgment upon them exclusively. 



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