Book-bot.com - read famous books online for free

Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various
page 69 of 160 (43%)
Bushel. Per cent.
Flour. 44 73.3
Middlings. 4 6.7
Shipstuff. 2 3.3
Bran. 10 16.7
-- -----
Total. 60 100.0


These data furnish us a means of estimating the amount of the
different ingredients removed in the various products in one bushel of
wheat with the foregoing component parts.


FLOUR.

The analysis of the flour shows us that the 44 lb. obtained from the
one bushel of grain would contain the following ingredients:

Lb. per Bushel
of Wheat.
Water. 5.834
Ash. 0.167
Albuminoids. 4.620
Woody fiber. 0.532
Carbo-hydrates (starchy matters). 33.391
Fat. 0.453


WHEAT MIDDLINGS.
DigitalOcean Referral Badge