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WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WHEAT
IN LONDON.
' A MILLING TEST. -
Under.date of September 15 the Agent
General, Sir Newton Moore, wrote from Lon
don to the Minister for Lands and Agricul
ture as follows :--"Whilst the Bakers and
Confectioners' Exhibition at the A ricultural
Hall, Islington,, was being held, I arranged
for a small parcel of the wheat that was
forwarded from the State for exhibition
thereat 'to be milled by a Frenclh firm that
was exhibiting. From the attached copy of
a letter which I have received from the firm
in question, Messrs. Schweitzer Bros., and
Co., you will nbte that the result has 'been
very satisfactory indeed."
The attached letter is as follows :-"We beg
to thank you for the:Western Australian
wheat supplied to our friend, Mr. Wearne, to
test our system of milling, more particularly
as applicable to Australian wheats. The
wheat was milled'and baked by us at our
stand during the late Bakers' Exhibition at
the Agrirultiral Hall, with the following
results:-lst-Flour, 'fine white,' 65 per
cent.; flour, 'household,' 16 per cent.; bran,
12 per cept.; pollard, 7 per cent.; waste
dust, etc.,' nil., 2nd-Flour, 'Standard,' 8l
per cent.; bran, 12 per cent.; 'pollard, 7 per
cent.; waste dust. etc., nil. We were par
ticularly struck with the uniform quality of
the samples' cleanliness, hardness, equal size
of grain, and exceptional free milling quali
ties. In the finished bread, as baked in
our portable oens at the same stand, the
qualities of the bread, white and Standard,
were particularly noticeable for their gene
ral appearance and lightness of loaves and
rolls, exceeding by far the best samples of
European and American wheats treated at
the same time and under similar conditions,
your bread having a pleasing appearance
and tsste somewhat resembling the usual
milk loaf, retaining both appearance and
moisture for several days, as against the
shrivelled, dry appearance of the ordinary'
bread of commerce"
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