Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-07

flour as bread maker, which will
prove of interest to readers. It fol
lows:
To the Trustees of the Carnegie In
stitute, rlttsDurgh, Pa:
Gentlemen: This letter is written
along suggestive lines only If the
subject matter is of sufficient import
ance and the suggestions at all prac
tical it will be for you to do the
rest.
Bread is without exception the most
Important of all manufactured pro-
ducts and yet there is less technical
skill and knowledge possessed by the
makers of bread than that expressed
IN the making of any other manufac
tured product.
Every steel mill has it's chemist on
the premises and could not, would not
run without this technical man stand
ing by the scientific rudder. A chem,
list under a yearly salary in bakery
Is as rare as dodo.
The chemistry of loaf of bread
Ii soacsluF bshrdle ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
is a closed book to 9,999,999 out OF
every ten million bakers or house
wives who make and bake bread.
No food, in scientific way, is Civ.
en- so little attention as the making
of bread. The housewife as a rule
takes all things for granted and he1
sole ambition is to "get her bread
into the oven" The baker in thous
ands of cases is no better.
Call upon baker to give you the
valuable and important points about
loaf of bread and he will begin with
volume, expansion, size, because that
is the most important point to pres
ent to the public. He must give his
customers a big, taking loaf of bread
Then will follow color, texture, etc
| You call attention to the fact that
every other valuable point but two
has been mentioned, viz: digestibili-
ty and nutritive value. And when
you raise these points there would be
some bakers who would not know
quite what you meant and others who,
understanding you, would not know
just how to go about it to improve
these two inconsequential qualities
in loaf of bread.
So as to bread, compared with it's
proper production in chemical sense,
the making of an exactly proportion.
ed, chemically billet of steel is mere
child's play.
Technical schools are good, invalua-
BILE. Every boarding school, college
and university should include a course
in practical and theoretical bread maxi
ing. What course in manual or tech
meal training today equals in import
ance that of making bread, and when
| say bread, do not mean mass of
flour, water, yeast, salt and lard
thrown together and allowed to fer
ment as best it may, and then baked;
but | mean bread carrying with it
all the attributes of perfection.
The bread Of the nation demands
reformation of the most radical kind
Begin at the wheat. We raised near
ly 800 million bushels this past year.
OF this 5 percent was durum wheat.
So to raise 760 million bushels of soft
er, more starchy and less muscle-val.
ue containing wheat, millions of acres
OF land, where more or less abund-
ant rainfall was experienced, was util-
lied; a great percentage of which be-
cause of the rainfall could have been
utilized to better and more appropri-
ate purposes in growing diversified
products.
Semi-arid lands, lands SO worthless
for other purposes as to remain for
years the cactus and prtckly pear and
wild sage home of the rabbit, coyote
and prairie dog, yield most abundant
crops of durum wheat. And, curious
to relate, favoroale and abundant con-
ditions in the matter of rainfall wi.
reduce the protein food value of dur
UNI wheat to the level of ordinary
wheats, whilst semi-arid conditions
and drouth will mature the grain to-
perfection. No wheat grown equals
in protein content the durum variety
and in the Russian wheat marts to-
day Kubanka, durum, wheat, because.
of it's high protein contents, leads al
the rest
The figures made up at harvest time
should be reversed and read, so many
millions of bushels Of wheat, IS per-
cent of which was soft wheats." cur
wheat crop for hundred reasons
should change over into durum wheat.
The reasons for so doing would De-
voluminous and expressed in dollars
and cents would overshadow the ma
tional debt many times.
The bringing into use of millions OF
acres of otherwise waste lands and5