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corn. Let such a committee report to the Institute at its next 

 meeting. 



Mr. Hall. — Invite bakers, also. 



Dr. Morehead seconds Mr. Sickle's motion, it was adopted unani- 

 mously. 



Mr. Hutchinson, of Cleveland, Ohio, grinds seven hundred bar- 

 rels of wheat flour per day, and is satisfied with the Stafford process, 

 thinks that every miller will have to adopt it, and that it will be of 

 immense advantage to the United States. 



Mr. Stafford remarked an acid thrown off from Indian corn while 

 being dried by his machine something like the smell of oak shavings 

 was sensible in the air of the room. It has been stated that cotton 

 in the hold of a ship, with corn which became heated, was serious- 

 ly damaged by what was believed to have been an acid proceeding 

 from the heated corn. 



Judge Van Wyck advised the thorough completion of this exam- 

 ination, for it is probable that the Indian corn of America is equal 

 to that of all the rest of the world together, in quantity, and it is 

 not improbable that Europe at least, will have to come here for some 

 of it. 



Dr. Morehead and Dr. Underbill had some conversation on the 

 subject of the acid alluded to. 



Mr. Sickles joined in the conversation, and concluded by advising 

 that the subject of this acid be examined by the special committee. 



Dr. Underbill remarked as to the wheat of our western country, 

 that it contained more gluten than the wheat of the southern states; 

 so much so that a little milk, or a little lime water, used instead of 

 yeast, makes bread of it as light as a cork. 



The Chairman appointed a committee on the Stafford process, 

 consisting of the following members, viz: — Messrs. Sickles, Under- 

 hill, Morehead, Chilton, and Charles Henry Hall. 



Mr. Wakeman moved that the regular subject be now taken up^ 

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