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No question can be entertained but that there are some 
other causes which have operated to the injury of our mark¬ 
et, and proved hurtful to our flour, in respect to quality_ 
These particulars loudly demanded the attention of several 
inspectors who ought to have checked the evils a longtime 
since. 
There are some few manufacturers residing near this 
city, who frequently purchase old and spoiled flour to have 
it mixed with newly ground wheat. A moment’s reflection 
will be sufficient to convince every person that such prac¬ 
tice is not only unjust, but highly detrimental to those who 
are more conscientious in manufacturing flour, and operat¬ 
ing altogether injuriously to our state. Such flour cannot 
be transported to a warm climate with safety ; ten days con¬ 
finement in the hold of a vessel, is sufficient to spoil the 
contents of every barrel so shipped. By the inattention or 
want of knowledge in persons who have been placed in 
office, the fair dealer and upright manufacturer, is placed 
to vast disadvantage ; his flour is only designated by the 
New-York brand, is shipped with the former, and sold at a 
foreign port, all en masae. 
Previous to the American revolution our flour carried the 
palm, its sweet and fine quality generally commanded a 
higher price, even above that of Philadelphia and Virginia : 
this information I have directly from a respectable gentle¬ 
man, who was a witness to the fact when transacting busi¬ 
ness in the West-Indies. Some years after that memora¬ 
ble period our flour kept its credit. But during the great 
scarcity of flour in England some fourteen years past, sev¬ 
eral of the manufacturers near our city, fell upon a scheme 
of making more flour from a given quantity of wheat; they 
succeeded by close grinding and re-grinding. Every parti¬ 
cle of the course flour and middlings was made so fine by 
repeated grinding, that all passed the superfine bolting 
cloth. A Mr. Barlow, residing near New-Rochelle, was the 
first miller near our city who commenced such practice, if 
