Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-06-08

NUTRITIOUS BREAD-wINTER WHEAT FLOUR
From Baltimore Manufacturers Record. May 90. $50
As good bread is essential to good health, and
a good flour is necessary in making good
bread a few facts bearing upon the manufacture
OF fiofr in Baltimore may prove of interest.
For over a hundred years, dating from IVA,
the Patapsco brand of flour was admitted TO be
the best flour in this market. With the radical
change in milling from buhrs TO rollers a few
years ago, which was first introduced in this
country in the west the new process or roller
Hour at once took the lead in the flour trade.
Notwithstanding the inferiOrity of the north
western spring wheat to the hard winter wheat
OF Maryland and Virginia, better -four could
be made from the former by the new roller
process than could be made from the latter by
the old system of buhrs. On this account the
spring patents commanded a higher price than
winter wheat flour. the difference here in Balti-
more at one time having been as much as 81 a
barrel.
The owners of the Patapsco mills of this city
had never hestated in spending money tor the
latest and best improvements in milling ma
chinery and il was due TO this that they had
DO long maintained the high standing OF their
hour In pursuance OF tsis policy they de-
mills, and to tit them up without regard TO ex-
pense with the best roller machinery that
could be had. This was done several years ago.
The result Is a matter OF interest.
The spring wheat patents having won popu-
lar favor we have already stated, and the
price for them having risen in some cases TO as
rs much as 81 a barrel over winter wheat flour,
the T.. A. Gambrill Manufacturing Co., the
owners OF the Patapsco Mills, were placed at a
0lsaUNdDIstgt III TeSdiDlDS lHelE pOSltlOu as the
makers of the best flour that could be pro-
duced- About that time leading dealer in
Western flour, in seeking to prove the superior
tty of this -four over that made from winter
wheat, stated in one of his advertisements that
"as IL Is generally admitted that an article is
worth what lit. it. VIII ho,, bring 9gu. on the
superior TO winter wheat flour, why this
difference in prieef' That question is very APP
propriate just now, for owing to the superiority
OF winter over spring wheat-a superiority due
10 Natures laws-the Patapsco people, since in
Producing the roller process machinery, have
not only overcome the difference In price that
existed a few years ago against their flour, but
have now entirely wiped out this difference,
and in some markets have actually advanced
Patent" to a point where it commands higher
price than the best Minnesota patents. In Bos-
tapsco Superlative commands 25 cents bar
rel more than the best Minnesota; in Glasgow
Patspsco has secured the same position, and
sells for shillings per $50 lbs. above the high
est price of Minnesota brands, and in London
the same Is true. Hence the question quoted
above may appropriately be changed to read:
III winter wheat Hour Is not superior to spring
wheat hour, why this difference IN prieeS'
The superiority of the winter wheat flour il
based upon the superiority of the hard winter
Patapsco Mills and the Minnesota Mills now
use the same system OF milling, the mill that
has the best wheat will naturally produce the
best Hour, other things being equal.
1t Is conceded, after long experience, that
Maryland and Virginia wheat is superior to
spring wheat because it ha, better combina-
zion OF gluten and phosphates, the gluten being
noted for its superior quality, and hence the
bread made from this winter wheat contains
more OF the essential elements of nutrition than
spring wheat bread. Bread being the staff of
life, IL Is Of course Of great importance that it
should contain as much nutriment as possible.
This is secured in the Patapsco flour.
The increasing demand for the PatapSco flour
has necessitated increased production, and this
Is to be met by enlargement and improvements
upon which the millwrightS are now at work,
50 that when completed, which will be about
July LIST, the G. A. Gambrill Manufacturing Co.
mills OF over 500, 600 barrels of -four, requiring
about 2, SOC, 900 bushels of wheat. AS a manu-
featuring industry, this ranks as one of the
most important enterprises in the country.