The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-23 00:00:00

HOW To PRY...4100,1C. TH.E. HEALTH OW THE

RURAL 1-01MLATION.
To the E.l itor,

SIR.- -0.1 rending thii article in your paper, 1 vie
atru,k by the •ords in italics "pinched and immured'
corn csl!ed the tuling, wliie4 rootaine sermon', mote
lea of the hotraiors elenulus,' and woe induord t, rum
to Jubneton's Chemistry of Common Life. vol. 1, pager
100, under the •rticle " he bread we rat," the author
after fully describing the constituent, of wheel a-d
bread, and the superior nutritious qualities of whole
me.; broads, ends by ssyinr, •• It ii • point of •Onst.
interest that the sward/ or (orn, which the farmer
separates before bringing las grain to market, and
usually griods for los own we, is Heber in gluten then
the plump fall-grown grain, and ie. ther,fere, more
nutritious." As bearing on the subjeet, I also *saloon
an article upon grinding corn, and reply thereto take.
from the London Standard newspaper, and, if you think
proper, pleaae to insert it in your next, and oblige, years
faithfully, OBSERVER.
Blandlord, 13th February.
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Gararmaix Cour.— We have not yet profited by all
the lesions that may be learned from foreigner., and we
are far be,ind some of the continents' nations in our
methods of preparing our food. Chemist. prows to no
that the grain of wheat isontas exsetly the proportions
i.f starch, gloten, fldrine, ha., beet adapted for human
aliment ; but we persist in throwing to the lower
animals all but the white inside, or, if we try to *bey
the chemist, we make loaves of whole meal—dour sod
Wan* brown bran together—forming a compound that
gives heartburn and indigestion to half those who
eof it. But in other *pantries people are wirer.
littialgireat mills in Pestb have nine pairs of stone, Orel
above another, each pair set to grind more finely than
the pair next above, and so the wheat, entering at nee
top of the mill. is roughly broken by the uppermost
pair of stones, divided wore effectively by the second
pair, more triturated by the third pair, still more by
the foarth pair, more and more finely granulated by the
fifth, sixth, seventh, end eighth pairs, and finally
reduced to a soft pnwder—fioar. sWir, shorts, end
bran altogether- by the ninth and lowest pair of stones.
The product is precisely conformable to the views of the
chemist, and, in addition, makes itself delighfully
agreeable, instead of irritating, to everybody's anima
physiology. Mechanically ingenious, too, tbeae mills
are nixed with stone. somewhat differing from those
ordinarily seen in Englatil. The eye or central opening
is very lane, that ell the grinding Is done between
11.. faces of the stone, far from the centre, and there.
fare (as reaeon would point out) where the motion if
the runner is most rapid.—Cliaraliers of .47ricultiere
Journal.

The following reply appeared in the Staundard —" In
rejorenoe to your extract, from the Members of
coligre Journal, on the Hungarian method of grindn
tern. we beg to observe that the English are not at al
, behind continental nations in thia respect, as by our
, we not only do all that the Pesth millers do,
hst we teessider that it is done in • far superior manner.
We tee. tried various metbois, and find that it is
!Impossible to produce a good flour in the way pointed
• oat, aa the effect of grinding the bran with the II ,ur err
Bee ji to kiL' the floor (as the bakers express it), and
atme /Ream,* a sake, instead of • light loaf such as is
used in this mutiny, besides the danger of rubbing off
the faces of the stone by their close contiguity. By our
wooise the seer is first separated ; the bran is then
gmmmd to the ...be awes of fineness in iron mashinery,
cod afterwards resto.'nd to the white flour. By this
method we are ewe to .modoee • Boor for the manufae-
tare of bread lies franc • %diatom grit and all the coarser
parental of bran will,* the usual way came indiges-
mom, mm, co," nod with white flour there
mm no question of tbe superiority of this kind of
flour, as, in addition to the Cticroh, we are enabled to
utilise all the other considerable of the groin—cll., the
gluten or flesh-forming principle, SS well as the earthy
wed alkaline phosphates, for oting the growth of
daily food, more especially ia that t f young children
the bones and teeth—ell el •há are required in our
and the dwellers in large towns and eild."&—Wo are, sir,
your obedient merman, CILInf AN and Coo Ift. Juno"
Steam Mills, Mitcham, &E., Jan. 7.