Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-04-08
usEFllLARTs.
George Cgya,e'',
jacob Perkins.
RrcriFIcATloN o. FLouR.


! MIR. Irvine,
Asst appears bya communication
inserted in the Columbian OF the 18th instant,
signed :" Amercanns" ou the lust claims of
very oiimportant facts on .usion, that during,
the hustle OF cOnieHGing political parties. you
still reserve corner OF your paper for those
WHO conteud i6r nothing but li:.lt and know
ledtse-I hope thatNeu will also enable me to
ciail.l for tlss Hon +. &. Genet,nemher of seve-
raj American pnt European scientific aud lite
farl societies., the priority OF adiscovery re-
ported to la - been atelV made i'll ENGLAND bv
the celebtrtndSir ii. DavS on the rectifcation
ct damaged -four by the means of magnesia-
Its not contemplated 10 charge the great En-
giish chemist with plagiarism; bis fame shields
INN against such suspicion; but my object is
purely TO state. that in the year 1914 AIR. Genet
being ia New-Yoik, and obliged, as almost eli
the citizens were at that epoch, 10 eat bad
bread, made in paltwith the sour and musty
ilour winch the stagnatlCn of commerce had
accumulated in all our perts--that gentleman
with the assistance OF Mr.. Frederick Porter
mpie several experiments. not only to neutra-
lie by the intermixture OF magnesia alba, the
Dhtd IN sour Hour, but ON another process nm
published by sir II. Davy, 10 cure that musty
taste, so diSagreeable in bread made with da-
mayed four.
MIR. Genet, after repeated experiments ut
his own mills near Albany, and at Weiss mills
near New ork, being satisfied that all DANA
ged Hour, unless entirely rotten, could be re-
Claimed, endeavorcd, by application 10 several
uOuf mefciSDtS ana capitalists IN tins city and
IN Albany, 10 render his discovery not only
useful 10 the country, but also 10 those who
would Promote il: Yet, it was all i'll vain: tie
hour-meTchartS were unwilling to pay just
compensation (of one dollar per barrel all
charges X costs Inciuded) for the rectlfcatiOn
OF Kind offlour which could always be forced
with d large profit, and without any additional
cost, onthe people, on the troops, and, now
and then, GA foreign nations. And the money
ed men knowing how to improve their capital
without the aid Of experimental philosophy,
would do nothing at alil Mr.. Genet hath.
however, continued his researches on that
Interesting subject of domestic economy
and. III a memoir prepared fer the sci
entiiic societies 10 which he belongs, he hiatt,
proved
LIST. That magnesia, in proportions which
vary according to circumstances, not cufy neil
tralizes the acidity Of -four but also prevents
it.
2d. That by another process, fire applied in
a peculiar manner to damaged flour, DESTROYS
that vegetable substance called mast. which
is the production of dampness and putretacti-
or.
And 3D.. That by more attention paid to The
storage ofwheat and the manufacturing and
curing ct -four IL its original state, and above
all, by the total REIMBURSEMENT of The practice
ofseye,G packing mIl!s, to mix al least one
teuth otthe f;our Of maize or Indian white corn
with the wheat -four; these accidents so fatal to
the character of our -four IN foreign markets,M
which we nave so dlsaSreeably felt ourselves
during the embargo and the war, would be a.
wooded, aud the remedies recommended as GU
ratives or representatives., rendered in some
measure supernuous.
GALLO AMERICARus.