ENGLISH STANDARD OF FLOUR. CROSSING BREEDS. 307 



which I am conscious to warp my own views, I shall, as fairly as I can, state 

 those facts which have come generally within my own ohservation, and leave 

 the conclusions to the honest judgment of my readers." Far from presuming 

 that we alone are privileged to know everything, and no one else anything, we 

 are always but too glad to pick up information wherever we can lind it, and 

 every little we get only aggravates the desire for more. 



THE ENGLISH STANDARD OF FLOUR, 



TO BE HAD FROM A QUARTER (eIGHT B U S H E L S ) OP WHEAT. 



To the Editor of The Farmers' Library : 



Deal' Sir — I want it recorded, and I have taken the liberty of sending to you 

 the following result of a quiirier of wheat, ground at an English mill, which is a 

 standard in England for all master millers or persons taking charge of the mill. 

 If he cannot effect such a proportionate yield, he is at once discharged by his 

 employer ; and I hope it will be thought of sufficient importance to find a place 

 in The Farjiers' Library. It was given to me by a very intelligent gentleman 

 owning a large mill in this country, and who has visited England. 



8 bushels of wheat, weight 61| lbs. per bushel lbs. 492 



yield — 65 bushels floui-, 56 lbs. per bushel lbs. 3d4 



Inferior flour 28 



Fine middlinars 11 



Coarse middliug's 1? 



Pollards (supposed to be fine ship-stuff) 2G 



Brail 42 



Waste 4 



lbs. 492 



I am truly yours, JOHN TRAVERS. 



The above Table gives Avhat we call practical information, such as, editori- 

 ally, we have all our lives aimed at. We consider such an item a far better les- 

 son to be taught in our Common Schools, than one-half of the lessons in the his- 

 tory of bygone and barbarous times. What is the usual yield in American 

 mills ? We guess the Yankee miller can grind about as close as another man ! 



What farmer can tell what weight of food, green or dry, is to be e.Ktracted from 

 land that will yield a given quantity of Indian corn ? Have our Institutes or So- 

 cieties prompted investigations of this character? Will any one make us a list 

 of the premiums that have been given the past season for eliciting new and im- 

 portant information in Agriculture ? [Ed. Farm. Lib. 



CROSSING BREEDS. 



We apprehend there is too much readiness to believe that better breeds of 

 cattle than we now have may be made and maintained by crossing one distinct 

 breed on another. 



This we have always deemed an error. Of the existing breeds, one is better 

 than another under all circumstances, according to locality, food, the purposes 

 for which it is designed, &c. ; but it would be vain to attempt to form a new 

 breed out of them, for, be the object what it may — the yoke, the dairy, the sham- 

 bles, or what not — breeds have already been formed out of the best of other 

 breeds, or natural races have been cherished and improved with reference to all 

 these objects. Better then will it be, and a great saving of time, to hold on to 



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