New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-24
TIE BREAD QUESTION.

To he Editor Of The y. Y Tribune
SIR: The economical production OF bread Is matter
nj so much importance, and your correspondent, A
1v Knker' has go spcclOusly CLOSED over me ruin,
in his communications of this day ana the ON instant
that some further facts may be OF service 70 your
roaders m To the quantity of bread bakers OBTAIN from
- barrel nj -four "A City Baker is as much mistaken
when he asserts il 10 be impossible 10 obtain III POUNDS
of bread from pounds OF -four "a he Is when ne says
there are 100 hundred zone hundred ana iorty
Thousand bakers in the city. His admission tna'
a. q housekccper cannot get much bread out OF q
barrel OF flour baker can, is important ior ihIs
not in consequence VI hs using strong fernohlS ou'
because he uses considerable corn meal insue mo
mush, and in part because " bakers hour aDsolos
much more water than the kind used by private ian-
lice. The following account of the quantity OF wafer
absorbed 10y -four and meal is deduced from careful
experiments and corresponds with those made by
Others: 1876 ID Extra Genesee absorbs 81 10
water; l96 10 Extra Petersburgh absorbs lVo
%. The proportion of meal used by difeen'
bakers varies extremely. Very good bread can DC
made with Is n meal TO 1876 10 -four; but If We allow
only 10 to the barrel il will the flour 10 absorb
10 ID OF water than it otherwise would. The
quantity OF dough, then which baker gets from
barrel of -four may he estimated follows: An aver
age mixture viii require 100 ID water; additional
water with the meal, 10 n; meal 10 flour, l96 ID
total, 81 10. Here then, that while private
Senerally use3 gets $50 ID dough the baker with
Southern -four and ID meal, gets 3lI 10 Now il is
certain that this extra water affords no nourishment
whatevcr, but is merely means OF increasing the
Now + we take the weight Of bakers bread as ascer
,.ned by your correspondent T. ~ ounces and sdd .
n.os for evaporation in baking, then 81 pounds d.
v;ded by u ounces equals 80 loaves, which a, u
sents A. ,;nnt tO Ga 81
willSnsw state what were receivers prices the
9Th inst FOR the descriptions OF flour used by bakers.
Extra petersburg was worth from 81 Is to e So eI-
IRA Ohio from g. - to s. 7j but such -four Is sparing
nv used by most of them SupeTtne PeersouIg, Lynch
,rg. &c. wac worth from A. 10 q y, and extra State
from 81 80 to &C. IS; consequently - 81 would De
liberal price for baker TO pay for bis mixture u ht
buys from the receivers; but if he buys on time hVI
second hands, could easily believe ne might pay
as Getty Baker states IT, then, We deduct - 81 io
the -four and cents for the meal, from s4 ~ we nav
a. q "A the profit for converting barrel OF dour int
bread and delivering il to the consumer. It's periect,
sbsd to talk OF bakers generally only getting - Il
rs your Bakers advocate would wish Us to believe
MANY OF them only Use four or I'VE barrels OF flour PEI
week. and yet keep horse and wagon, aud besides
This. more than half the bread consumed Is r.
tailed by grocers, and they receive about - %
for their trouble. The truth is, the enormous
profits made enable such numbers OF small bakers &c