Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-22
FOR PURE BREAD.


While in this country inventive gen
ius seems to be bent on providing the
public with all kinds Of authorizations In
food, 1t is pleasing to read Of efforts in
France to supply the people nutritious
and digestible bread at the lowest pos
sible cost. \ society has been formed
in Paris for that purpose and accord
ing to an interesting account in Popular
Science, It is meeting with well dc
served success. The account, which Is
furnished by the United States consul
at Roubaix, says;
"The bread known as pain de menage
is sold to the WORKING classes at about
IA pence l2l2 oentsl per pound, consld-
erably less than the usual price. the
Villette establishment Is building OF
iron and stone, about 5l5 feet long. SIT
uated on a canal. and constructed at
cost Of about 10000 pounds sterling
1890, COOL The wheat arrives in a boat
which is moored in a canal, elevators
hoist ii into bins. whence II is carried
By an immense elevator to the top of
the mill, and turned into the different
cleaning and separating machines. Az
ter all foreign substances have been
removed and the grains of wheat have
undergone a thorough brushing and
washing, they are clean and shining
but the grooves Of the wheat sometimes
retain little dust
This Is completely eliminated by
schweitzer appliance, which, seazing
each grain lengthwise, splits 1t exactly
In the groove. The wheat thus cleansed
passes into the mill, composed OF fiat
circular steel grinders, grooved in such
a manner that they accomplish the de-
cortication OF the kernel and It's granu-
latlon into meal at the same time.
These grinders are movable, but do not
touch. so that instead Of crushing the
wheat and producing flour IN when
the starch only Is retained, the outer
and harder portion OF the wheat, con-
tanning gluten and other nutritiye
properties. is retained in the flour. The
bran alone Is expelled. Attached to the
mill are the works OF kneadng thu
meal. water, and yeast into bread.
"Ail this Is done mechanically, the
works being separated unto three
stories. Special yeast is prepared In
| the upper story in rooms heated In win
ter and cooled in summer The yeast,
flour. and the sailed water are carried
| down by machinery into kneaders, in
| the form of half-cylndrical tubs, rotat-
ing on two pivots placed In the axis Of
the kneadinS -troughs, so that the tubs
| may be placed at a lower or higher
| angle. In order TO accelerate or retard
| the kneading. The wheat, salted water,
and Yeast automatically enter one end
| III the tub and dough, In an endless
| skeln OF pale yellow, ISSUES from The
| ounosIte end. The dough finally falls
! on tables on the ground floor, where
| II is weighed and made into bread OF
| every shane and dimension In connec
| ton with this model establishment is a
laboratory for the chemical eXamina-
! tions az the samples OF wheat submitted
for purchase These are. upon arrival
| ground and passed through sieve by
! n small hand boiling mill, which de-
termines Immediately the nutritiye vol
ume OF the grain in gluten and nitro
genous matter
France has had experience, in the
past as to the length 10 which a poorly
fed people will so, when aroused to an
| ger, ana tut tholNS w oHFFtH NHN Ntoi'
Of life pure and az reasonable figures,
may. In that country at least be re-
garded as a matter Of protection TO the
state and It's institutions. In Belgium
the conditions created by scarcity OF
provisions was some years ago met by
cooperation among the working men
themselves. by which prices were ma
terially reduced, and cooperative soci.
e,les then formed now flourish and the
people are benefited thereby
In this country. with It's immens,
resources. the necessity for strict econo'
my in the production Of food stuffs has
not yet been felt But greed has In
stead been permitted TO place on the
food market many yalueless and In.
furious ingredients at high prices This
should not be. a movement for pure
food az a reasonable cost, is as mucl
needed here as In the countries wher,
the maintenance Of more dense popu
lation presents quite a --oblem.
It is washngtons birthday. Many
happy returns.