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Quality in Wheat. 



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something of the nature of a combination rather than a 

 mixture pure and simple. 



Other evidence points to the necessity for looking at the flour 

 from this point of view ; for example, it is a generally received 

 opinion that wheat cut green is " stronger " than if it is allowed 

 to get dead ripe. The Rivett wheat grown in 1902 







i 



APRIL 8 

 i904 



Fig. 4. 



RIVET WHEAT 

 DEAD-RIPE RIPE CREEN 



Fig. 5. 



(Table III.) bore out this opinion, as may be seen from the 

 photograph (Fig. 5). However, when the experiment of cutting 

 at various stages was repeated in 1903, both at Addlestone and 

 at Rothamsted (see Table VIII.), no such result was obtained, 

 a result which we can at present only attribute to the very 

 different weather which prevailed at and about harvest in the two 

 years. 



