AMERICAN WHEAT AND CORN. 



AMERICAN FLOURS OF 1883. 



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1856 Patent Flour, Warder & Barnett, Springfield, Ohio. 

 2100 Patent flour, Herr & Cissel, Georgetown, D. C. 

 2057 Patent Flour, C. L. Pillsbury, Minneapolis, Minn. 



2114 Patent Flour, Pillsbury "A." best, Minneapolis, Minn. 



2115 Patent Flour, Red River Roller Mills, Fergus Falls, Minn. 



2116 Patent Flour, R. L. Frazee, Frazee City, Minn. 



2117 Snow Cloud, Pembina Mill Co., Pembina, Dak. 



2118 Fargo's Best, Fargo Roller Mills, Fargo. Dak. 



2119 No. 1 Straight, Fargo Roller Mills. Fargo, Dak. 

 2121 Patent Flour, George Davis, Ottawa, Minn. 



The Eastern flour is poorer in nitrogen and gluten than any of the 

 others. In fact the flours follow closely the composition of the wheat, 

 which has been examined from the same parts of the country. Dakota 

 makes a flour richer than any other in gluten in the same way that it 

 produces a wheat of that description. The sample from Peinbiua, like 

 the wheat from that locality, is lower than any other spring wheat 

 flour. The average of these " Northwestern spring wheat flours," is high 

 and in comparison with the rest of the country they are the richest 

 which have been analyzed. They compare favorably with Hungarian 

 roll flour, which they closely resemble. 



AVERAGE COMPOSITION OF FLOURS. 



Forty -nine Eight Minnesota 

 flours, U. Eastern and Dakota^ 

 S. Census. flours. flours. 



Another peculiarity of the spring wheat flours is their dryness. It 

 will be seen in the averages that they contain several per cent. les& 

 moisture than the Eastern specimens. From the results of the experi- 

 ments on the relations of such material to atmospheric conditions it is 

 plain that they would gain weight on transportation east or to the coast, 

 and other things being equal, a barrel of dry Western flour would make 

 more bread than a barrel of Eastern. This is certainly an important 

 factor in the consideration of the value of flours. In specimens Nos. 

 2057 and 2121 the absorption had, to a large extent, taken place, while 

 the others, being tightly boxed, were received without any absorption * 



