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Excerpt from The Condition and Needs of Spring Wheat Culture in the Northwest
The finest ?ours made in the United States are now made from spring wheat. These fine grades are known as Patents, and are made from the middlings of hard spring wheat. 9 The ?our made from purified middlings of hard spring wheat was very fine, and the State of Minnesota had a large exhibit. This ?our is both white and strong, possessing a large quantity of gluten. As a bread-making ?our we con sider it par excellence, making the largest number of pounds of fine bread from a fixed number of pounds of ?our, retaining its moisture a long time, and being very sweet and wholesome.
In consequence of this remarkable invention, hard spring wheat com m ands in the market six cents more per bushel than any other sort. There has been an extraordinary increase in the number and capacity of ?our mills; till now, in the city of Minneapolis, Minn, where the vast water power of the Saint Anthony Falls of the Mississippi is made available, are some of the best and largest ?our mills in the world. Similar mills are found in nearly all of the prominent towns of the Northwest. Those at Minneapolis last year consumed bushels of wheat.
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