The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-26
The BEST EVER.
Quality of This Years Wheat
Crop Extremely High.
1t Is Away Ahead of Last Year
in Percentage of Gluten.
COBURN INVESTIGATES
Interviews MilIers on FlOur-Pr0-
ducing Qualities.
This Years Flour to Be a Great
Kansas Advertisement.

The governments statistics for the
past hve years establish Kansas as
foremost in the production of wheat
and by excellence of their output kan
sas mills have made for themselves at
home and abroad a deserved and envia-
bic reputation for the manufacture of
the higher grade f1ours. For years a
clamorous trade has demanded more CT
Kansas breadstuffs than ,.ould ',e srp-
piled, and indications are that this
years output will be of a higher grade
than ever before, because of the superb
quality of the new wheat. Whatever
may be lacking in bushels will be more
than offset by it's superior Touring and
baking quality, although there is little
doubt that this years quantity will ex-
ceed the annual average
Secretary F. D. Coburn, of the Kansas
board of agriculture, has been investi-
eating the Touring quality of this years
wheat, having interviewed milIers in
all portions of the state, and, so far as
ground, it has been uniformly found to
contain an unusual percentage of
gluten, the most valuable property of
the berry.
Ordinarily with the present i'm
proved systems of milling there is re-
quired from 4 bushels and 80 to 40
pounds of No. 2, 59-pound test,
wheat to make d 196-pound barrel of
flour, and of course the higher wheat
tests the less of it is required. Owing
to the comparatively low grade last
year the amount of wheat per barrel
of flour possibly averaged something
more than bushels and 40 pounds,
while in some localities even more
than bushels was necessary. From
the best information thus far obtain
able, this years crop promises to aver
age a barrel of flour from about 4
bushels and 25 pounds of wheat, or
less; in the more favored sections
millers report that 4 bushels and IS
pounds to 4 bushels and 20 pounds
will be sufficient. This suggests par
excellent flour. In stating the less
quantity of this years wheat required
than of that raised in 1904 the an
swers of the millers range from 3
reports, compared conservatively with
those of 1904, this years crop will
average q barrel of flour of superior
strength on to 10 pounds less wheat,
and, on this basis, to the more readily
appreciate the significance of high
quality, last years crop, if of equal
quality with that of this. would have
been capable of producing more flour
by 100000 to 100000 barrels, as for
every 160 to 130 bushels of wheat
milled there would have ben an addi-
tional barrel of flour. The conditions
named not only guarantee a stronger,
better flour, eagerly sought for, but
mean additional prestige for the Kan
sas product wherever used
Following are brief excerpts from
replies of ten representative Kansas
milling concerns from whom Secretary
Coburn has heard in reference to the
new wheat:
The Hunter Milling company, We'll
lington-It will take about 4 bushels
and % to % pounds of wheat to make
a barrel of flour against 4 bushels and
rs to 26 pounds of last years crop.
We believe this years crop of wheat
is the best and will make more flour
than any grown in the last five years.
Abilene Milling companyq, Abilene
We are making a barrel of flour out
of bushels and 20 pounds of this
years wheat, averaging about so
pounds test. We consider this year S
crop the best we have ever milled, and
we have been in the business in Kan
sas Is years.
c. Hoffman & Son, Enterprise
Tests made by US would indicate that
this years crop will make perhaps one
pound of -four per buShel more than
ordinary crops.
I. NJ. Yost Milling company, Hays
We find this years genuine Red Tur-
key wheat to be about 10 per cent
greater in strength. In our estimation
valuable flour producer this year than
ever before. The flour in its virgin
state is more creamy, and has greater
percentage of gluten than usual.
Lee-Warren Milling company Sa-
lina.-The new crop is producing ex-
cellent flour; it contains a larger per
cent of gluten than any for several
seasons, and the flour from the 1905
wheat will be the best advertisement
for Kansas that we have had. 1t can
not do otherwise than produce more
flour to the bushel than the wheat of
the last two seasons.
Mid-Continent Mills, Topeka.-The
new wheat is of most excellent quality
and the flour we have already made
from it is giving splendid satisfaction
We find that we can make a barrel of
flour with four to six pounds of wheat
less than we used last year. Kansas
wheatS make strong, glutinouS flour,
and this years crop shows a large per-
centage of this property. Gluten is
what the world wants and 1T is always
willing to pay premium for wheat OF
that character.
Larabee Flour Mills company, Stat
ford-The year past it took from 4
bushels and 81 to 40 pounds of wheat
for a barrel of -four. Two weeks OBJ
servation thus far is that we will be
able to get a barrel from approximate
perfectly satisfied we can make bar
rel from u bushels
B. Warkentin Newton-Ordinarily
with our present system of milling ii
takes 4 bushels and 80 pounds of No
?, 59-pound test wheat to make a bar
rel of flour, but when wheat is testing
SO to 81 pounds a we'll arranged mill
is capable of making a barrel of flour
from bushels and % pounds of
wheat. Last years crop required 4
bushels and 40 pounds to bushels of
wheat per barrel of -four, owing to
lighter grades of wheat.
Kelley & Lysle Milling company
LeaVenworth-On the 1904 wheat We
xvo11Id estimate n av6Ta Of 4 b1ISh l.
and 5 pounds were required to make
barrel of flour, whereas if the quail
ity of the new wheat we have received
so far is maintained throughout we