USEFUL PROJECTS. 
bread of the whole meal, it being in- 
tended to lay a check on both meal- 
man and baker ; but in this the bill 
failed. If only. one sort of flour 
was allowed to be mae, the meal- 
man would be obliged to make it, 
and could have no sale for the finer. 
If the miller was forced by parlia= 
mentto dress his flour coarser, it 
would increase the quantity froma 
given quantity of wheat, as it would 
take in the finer pollards, which are 
now, in the common mode of manu- 
facturing, entirely separated from 
the flour, the expence of manus 
facturing would be cheaper, and the 
flour sooner fit for.use. The best 
and most wholesome bread is made 
from flour that contained the whole 
of the meal, with the broad bran 
only taken out; and the fine pol- 
lards contain a sweet oily substance, 
that prevents the bread from drying 
in so short a time as bread made 
from fine flour only. Brown-bread 
flour, manufactured in the best man- 
ner from the whole of the wheat; 
with thé broad bran only taken out, 
imay be ground to-day, dressed to 
morrow, andused next day. The 
poor will not buy the coarser bread 
if they can buy better, nor be satis- 
fied unless they give the highest 
price. No bread is now made in 
London for sale but the fine wheaten, 
The parliamentary household bread 
should be made from the whole 
meal, the broad bran only being 
taken out; which may be ascertained 
either by dressing it through a cloth, 
or wire, woven with a certain num- 
ber of threads or wire in an inch. 
What is called a 14s, cloth is gene- 
rally understood to be proper for 
use. This flour would bake into 
’ such bread as is made in gentiemen’s 
families, where the wheat has been 
ground in their own mill, and no 
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tricks played with it. If parliament 
would give the same encouragement 
to the baker for making bread trom 
the flour as here stated, as they now 
have for baking the fine household 
flour, the millers would be willing 
to manufacture for that purposes 
Flour from Indian corn mixed with 
wheat would give it a yellow cast ; 
but a small quantity improves ordi- 
nary flour very much. White pease 
are sometimes ground with it in 
small quantities. If the Albion-miils 
had ground to the hire it would 
not have been a profitable concern, 
which is the cage with common mils 
lers: they are, therefore, all meal- 
men. The Albion-mills caused a 
competition, which reduced the 
profit to the millers in general. No 
wheat is used in distilling, nor any 
objection thence to prohibit the use 
of wheat and wheat-flour entirelys 
or carrying any kind of corn coast- 
wise from one port of the united 
kingdom to another. 
Mr. Stonard, starch.maker, said 
there was no law confining the mas 
king of starch to wheat, which made 
it whiter. No profit on the trouble 
of making it of rice; and starch 
merely for washing might be made 
of barley, The East-India Com- 
pany’s scarlet cloths require starch 
in dying ; and it is useful to the pas 
per-trade for packing it. 
Pease and beans might be used to 
make it ; but potatoe starch has no 
body, and is made with great 
waste; it can only be made of vege- 
table substances; and the number of 
hogs fed from the offal of it is a con« 
siderable object. The committee 
appointed by the lord-mayor and 
court ofaldermen were of opinion, 
that the mode by which the. prices 
of wheat and flour have been col. 
lected, under the act of 31 Geo. II, 
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