Wheat and flour primer . end we find it still shows a stiff bunch of bristlinghairy fibres, its invisible beard^ for to the eye it is clear andsmooth. Within these bran coats there is a hard shell ofglutenous matter yellow and half transparent, and of flintyhardness. Inside this shell of gluten and merging therewith arestarch cells, white as snow, resting within a net-work of thewoody fibre, and we can easily find the germ—small, yellowas brown sugar, and both oily and sweet to the taste. The process of milling is to remove the bran coats, sep-arate the germ and crush gluten and starch to a po
Wheat and flour primer . end we find it still shows a stiff bunch of bristlinghairy fibres, its invisible beard^ for to the eye it is clear andsmooth. Within these bran coats there is a hard shell ofglutenous matter yellow and half transparent, and of flintyhardness. Inside this shell of gluten and merging therewith arestarch cells, white as snow, resting within a net-work of thewoody fibre, and we can easily find the germ—small, yellowas brown sugar, and both oily and sweet to the taste. The process of milling is to remove the bran coats, sep-arate the germ and crush gluten and starch to a powder ofvelvety softness. From the top stories of the mill, where the cleansing proc-esses have been perfected, the wheat, measured by the mostperfect automatic device, which by the simple principle ofgravity separates from the flowing stream of grain just enoughfor a barrel of flour (about five bushels), drops to the first floorof the mill where the rollers begin their work of crushing. WHEAT AND FLOUR PRIMER * . >. » BBS «i »B » \ ^ f w r r ^ IfJOIBtMii ff V iM| Jk. nf -Ji«B?I«jB-«»!lS 14 *.— .JsSsu, SECTIONAL VIEW OF A SIMPLIFIED FLOUR MILL GOLD MEDAL FLOUR Scales, for weighing wheat as it is received. Receiving separator, for separating other kinds of seeds from bins, for reserve supply of wheat in advance of mill separator, for further separating foreign seeds from , for removing dust from wheat cylinder, for removing all round washer, for thoroughly cleansing the dryer, for drying wheat after break rolls, for rupturing bran, enabling bran and germ to be separated from break scalper, for sifting middlings through bolting cloth to separate from break rolls, for further loosening the middlings from break scalper, for separating more middlings from break rolls, for further loosening middlings from break scalper, for fi
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