Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-01
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
FLOUR PRODUCTION.
Greatest Receipts from Our Wheat
Methods Of Exporting Milling In
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Methods Of Exporting-The Milling In
dustry, Present and Future.
The leading product of California at the present
time, however it may be changed in the future, is
wheat. Our immense grain fields, the extended
area over which the industry is carried on within
our borders and the enormous excess over con-
sumption, are subjects Of unfeigned admiration and
renown to the furthest reaches Of civ lization as
well as Of careful business considerations and infu-
ence throughout the commercial world Formerly
the entire wheat yeld OF the State-n excess Of the
amount required for home eonsumption-was ex-
ported without milling, except the -four shipments
made to China. The business of converting the
wheat into -four before shipping abroad, received
active attention later, with increasing satisfactory
results and there is doubt but that in the near
future our exports Of this class will be in -four
nearly exclusively, instead of wheat. This not only
makes saving in the item Of freight, and conse-
quently a reduction in price to that extent to
the foreign consumer, but it makes permanent with
us another valuable and extensive industry
With this last consideration is to be also men
toned the equally important one, that the manu-
iactu1e Of wheat into -four before shipping iuc
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the annual wheat product to the State by puttir 2
into the hands Of our manufacturers OF -four, and
their employees the margins which would be made
by milling in foreign countries. Not only has this
now become fully recognized, AID the business Of
milling grown into extensive proportions in Califor-
MIA, but the most improved methods OF manufact-
uring -four with view 10 securing the highest re-
suits in quantity well quality thereby increas
ing the profit in manufacturing, and resulting Of
necessity in 8 proportonate increase in the aggre.
gate value to the grower Of the grain crop The
most marked departure from former methods for
this purpose is the introduction Of the roller pro-
cess, by which it is maintained that not only the es.
sental qualities OF the flour are improved but the
quantity increased by converting portions into first
grade flour which before went into bran and mid
diings. The comparative value OF the -four pro-
duced by this process and that of grinding has been
a subject Of much interest among manufacturers.
and samples OF each were recently submitted to Pro
lessor Davidson, of Buffalo, n. Y, for careful ana.
lyticl examination and test Following is his effi-
cial report upon the subject:
BUFFALO, November l6, 1888
Dear Sir: Some days age you placed in my hands
Tor examination Two sal-ptes OF hour, marked re-
spectively:
No l, Stone milled -four patent. No. ,, Roller
milled flour, patent.
You desired an answer to the following questions:
l. What is the relative nutritive value of the two
samples Of flour?
,. Does the stone milled -four contain most bran?
8. Is the presence of proportion of bran in the
-four an advantage as aiding digestion:
Ianswer these questions in the order given:
l. That portion OF the wheat grain which, by con
version into bread, is important as a nutritious
substance is composed OF nitrogenous (chiey vege-
table ibrin or gluten) and non-ultrocenous sub
stance principally starcb) with varying quantities
of dextrine sugar and inorganic salts, which are
mostly phosphates OF these the heterogeneous con.
stituents chiefly produce blood, and are, therefore,
the most nutrtiye while the organic portion of the
latter constituents is almost entirely devoted to
maintaining the heat Of the body
The nutritiye value of -four, therefore, may be
estimated by the amount of gluten present. The
quantity extracted from the grain depends largely
upon the method of milling, the gluten is chiefly
conf ed to the "guten coat which lies in imme-
diate contact with the integumental or true bran
coat.
In the samples submitted, although both show
proportion Of gluten above the average in fours of
this grade, the roller -four is superior. The result
of the examination is as follows: