The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-16
MINNESOTA WHEAT AND FLOUR.
Superiority scientifically Explained.

The world every day becomes more
and more impressed with the fact tina.
Minnesota -four excels all other, espe-
cially since the new purifier has been at
work. They are not so certain that the
wheat grown in Minnesota and the rest
of the fertile belt is in itself superior to
all other; but that is the most consplc-
uous fact.
Take grain Of winter wheat. grown,
say, in Missouri. California and South
ern Russia; cut it into tranSyersely
witt, a knife, and it shows very plainly
granulatcd appearance, many of the
granules being polished by the knife.
That is starch; the winter grown
Southern wheat consists largely Of
starch, food element deficient il nitro
gen, whatever gluten is in it being in
the rejected bran. The usual grinding
entirely separates it. But grain Of
Northern grown spring wheat has
gluten all through it, Of which it does
not yield much in the first grinding.
The Middlings Purifier, however, takes
the -four just where ordinary mills
leave it. and extracts all the gluten,
leaving behind only worthless refuse.
1t has been objected that the -four is
too white, that not enough bran IS left
in it, that it is deficient in the most nu-
tritive qualities. If what is said above
is true, and it is the version given by
mille-s who are at once practical and
scientific, the objection is already an
swered. A grain Of Minnesota winter
wheat, nlicroscopically examined, shows
black threads passing through it from
END to end. Around and upon these
threads the gluten cells seem TO rest as
axes Of formation. These threads con-
stitute the bulk Of the matter rejected
by the Purifier. as may be proved by
wetting the refuse, when it is as black
as ink. These little fibres seem 10 con-
tain no nutrltiye qualities, but only clog
and darAen the -four.
Chemists have found that fine, white,
starch -four is not rich enough in MI
TRENT material, lacking particularly in
the elements necessary for bone making. |
Experience proves that Southern grains, |,
even those Of Illinois and Iowa, do not |
furnish the necessary supplies to the |
body, hence the small bones and defec- /
tive teeth of the Southern nations
whereas the Northern nations arc I
stronger and taller and with better
teeth, owing to their living SO largely
on grains containing more gluten. We
must have wheat rich in gluten and, in
the same climate and latitude, the richer
the soil the more gluten.
II hoc xx-ho |
deficient in the best -four making prop
critics: but it is useless for the tier Of
States below us to try to remedy the
evil by raising spring wheat: it will not
grow there. Now the Mjddlings Puri-.
fer will operate, to the highest advan !
tage, only on spring wheat. To sum
up:
LIST. The best -four can be made only
from wheat rich in gluten.
I'd. Southern grown winter wheat is
deficient in gluten.
Sd. Northern grown spring wheat
abounds in gluten.
4th. The States east of us in the
same latitude have too poor a soil to
compete with us either in the quantity
or quality of grain.
9th. The tier Of States south,of US
cannot grow spring wheat to advan-
age.
9Th. The Aiddl;nsS Purifier gives US
III the nutrtive parts Of our Northern
'pring wheat.
7th. Flour made by the Middlings ,
Purifier from our wheat, commands 81 !
% s. d barrel more than the finest i
southern brands in the New York mar I
1et.
Sth. Minnesota and Dakota ofer =
Countless acres of just such wheat lands Z
5 will feed the AIiddlings Purifier
81. Paul Pioneer.