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LESSON XXXIV 

 FLOUR AND FLOUR MAKING 



From what is most of our flour made? Show samples of 

 flour, corn meal, etc., and discuss them. What part of the 

 kernel furnishes the white flour? the bran? the middlings, 

 or shorts ? 



Explain what ''self-raising" flour is, and how this may 

 be prepared at home. 



Experiment. Grind some wheat in a mortar or coffee 

 mill. Get the children to suggest how the resulting ingredi- 

 ents bran, shorts, and flour may be separated. Sift 

 through sieves of different degrees of fineness, or through 

 cloths, and show how the flour and other products may be sep- 

 arated from each other. 



Visit a flour mill, and 

 show how the grists are 

 received and weighed, 

 passed through a smut 

 machine, and the grain 

 cleaned from other sub- 



A SIMPLE SIEVE 



stances, and how it is 



then passed into the grinding machine, the mill stones or 

 rollers, and crushed. The means of separating the different 

 ingredients, and of making the different grades of flour, may 

 be seen and explained to the children. Show them how the 

 flour is finally put into sacks and properly branded and 

 shipped to reach the consumer. 



NOTE. For a few cents, small pieces of wire cloth having meshes of 

 different sizes may be purchased. ome of the older pupils can make 

 of them very useful sieves as shown in the illustration. 



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