i Ocr., 1901.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 381 
Goulburn.—This is the fourth season that the grain has been grown in 
this district. ‘After the first harvest there was a marked superiority in 
appearance over the imported grain, the berries being much plumper and more 
aven. The milling was as follows :— 
Variety of grain—Duluth. 
Appearance of grain—Fair size, reddish, hard. 
Weight per bushel—61 lb. 
{ Flour = 68. 
Percentage of Pollard = 11. 
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mill-products 
ran ='2]. 
Gluten = 12°16 per cent. 
Nature of : ¢ = 59:2 ting 309 lb. 
= ate Strength in quarts per 200-lb. sack Haare eye 
Colour—Very good; slightly yellowish. 
‘Milling notes.—Fair to mill; bran and pollard, fairly clean—perhaps more flour 
could have been obtained from them without affecting the colour; semolina, 
rich yellow tinge, and very gritty. 
‘The colour, though yellow, is not dark, as is the case with the imported grain, 
but bright and clear, of good surface, and should make a white loaf. 
‘This sample is a shade lower in strength than the imported grain quoted 
‘previously, but is still very high compared with the white wheats, and it cannot 
‘be said to show any deterioration in this district either in strength or gluten, 
while the colour of the flour has distinctly improved. 
With regard to its characteristics as a crop, Mr. Conolly, of the Goulburn 
Flour Mills, has kindly obtained the following information for me from the 
grower:—The yield was 27 bushels to the acre, 24 acres went 27 bushels, and 
8 acres went 30 bushels. he wheat stools wonderfully, and, if sufficient rain 
had fallen at the end of November or the beginning of December, the grower 
thinks the average would have been 35 to 40 bushels. Mr. Conolly, from his 
experience in the Goulburn district, says that Duluth wheat yields fully 20 
bushels all round. In the wet seasons it is the only kind fit for milling, other 
grains being too soft. 
Armidale.—Mr. J, Richardson, of Armidale, forwards a sample of Duluth 
grown in that district ; it milled as follows :— 
Variety of grain—Manitoba. 
Appearance of grain—Fair size, plump, red, hard. 
Weight per bushel—63 lb. 
‘Percentage of {Pola 972-0) 
umill-products Pollard = 7-1. 
Bran = 20:9. 
Gluten = 11°17. 
pers of Strength in quarts per 200-lb. sack 1 
= 63 (representing 317 lb. 
bread per sack). 
Colour—Excellent, clear good surface. 
Milling notes.—An easy milling wheat. Semolina yellow tinge, very gritty, 
bran and pollard clean. 
Jn this case also the strong-flour characteristics are well maintained, and 
the colour of this flour is exceptionally good—quite as good as the best 
Sydney flour. 
In view of this result it would appear that the endeavour to obtain a 
strong-flour grain giving a flour of the highest colour is not by any means 
impossible of attainment. 
Of this sample Mr. Richardson reports that the crop from which it was 
taken went 25 bushels to the acre. Mr. Richardson states that the district is 
suitable to this kind of grain. 
Gundagai.—A sample of Duluth grown at Gundagai was entered for 
fompetition at the local show recently held. As might be expected, the results 
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