68 Notes from the Physiological Laboratory 



V. That inasmuch as in the bran of wheat as or- 

 dinarily roughly removed there is adherent a note- 

 worthy amount of the true gluten of the endosperm, 

 any process which in the production of wheaten 

 flour should remove simply the three cortical pro- 

 tective layers of the grain would yield a flour at 

 once cheaper and more nutritious than that ordi- 

 narily used. 



