Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various
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the complaining farmers that the millers were in the right of the
question, on this occasion at least. It is expected that further analysis will be made, this time of the flour made from the different grades of wheat. If these investigations be properly conducted, we have no doubt that they will simply confirm the evidence of the wheat tests. A chemical analysis alone, however, will not be sufficient. The quantity of flour obtained from a given amount of wheat must also be ascertained and its quality further tested by means best known to millers, as regards "doughing-up," keeping qualities, color, etc. And then the result can be no less than to show what millers already knew--that the best quality of flour, commanding the top prices in the market, cannot be obtained from an inferior quality of wheat.--_Milling World._ * * * * * APPARATUS FOR PRINTING BY THE BLUE PROCESS.[1] [Footnote 1: Read June 21, 1882, before the Boston Society of Civil Engineers.] By CHANNING WHITAKER. The blue process is well known to the members of the society, and I need not take time to describe it; but with the ordinary blue process |
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