The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-05
ABOLISH WHITE
BREAD IN ]. 5.
ORDER BY SECRETARY OF AGRI-
CULTURE.-NO MORE FLOUR
BLEACHING. - WHERE DO
BRAN AND MIDDLINGS GO?

Minneapolis. Feb. 4.-By ruling
of Secretary James Wilson of the de-
partment of agriculture, which went
into effect yesterday, white bread
Is abolished in the United States of
America.
The golden bread-the kind our
mothers used to make-will be the
result, of this ruling-in place of
the white bread our wives and sis
tiers make
Beginning yesterday the millers
all over the country must stop
bleaching -four. But the bleached
flour still in stock may lawfully be
disposed of until June 8. 81 -.,,
There will be as much difference
between bread made from un-
bleached 4 -four and the present
bleached, flour bread as there is be-
tween. angel cake and sponge cake,
The -four will be of creamy colod
instead of clear white, and the
bread will be light golden in color
But there will be no difference in
flavor
Laugh on Wiley.
Millers think they have the laugh
on Chemist Wiley, of the agricultu-
raj department, who is responsible
for the ruling against bleaching ma
terials. They have figured it out
that sodium nitrate, the chemical
most commonly used, is so little
| harmful and is used in such small
quantities, that the consumption of
| 10000 loaves of bread baked from
the bleached flour would not kill a
man-that is the sodium nitrate
wouldn't.
Figuring further, they say that if
one began to eat bread on the day
| he was born, at the rate of half a
| loaf a day, and if he could retain
in his system all the sodium nitrate,
he would be 55 years of age by the
time he had consumed his harmful
share of nitrate.
But Chemist Wiley gets back the
laugh with the admission that the
bleaching materials are not in them
selves very harmful, but that the OBJ
ject of the ruling is to make the
-four look natural.
Flour Bleaching.
Evidence taken at the bleaching
hearings brought out the fact that
the wheat grown in the northwest
makes flour almost as white as
the bleached product The first run
of the mill, likewise, is whittier than
the later run. On the other hand,
the wheat grown in the latitude of
st. Louis and in the more southern
states makes a yellower -four.
Likewise it was brought out that
the -four made from the durum, or
so-called macaroni wheat, requires
bleaching before it is mixed with the
ordinary variety. AS the durum
wheat is about 20 cents cheaper
bushel, it is clear why the millers
like to bleach and mix this product.
The millers will continue bleach
ing -four intended for the export
trade. Foreigners are accustomed to
the nice white appearance of the
bleached flour and will demand 1t.
There has been protest in England
against American -four, the COM
plant being that inferior grades of
wheat and even whole wheat were
being worked into -four that, by
the bleaching process, was made to
appear as of highest grade
1t has been calculated that wheat
-four, bread and crackers pastry, and
similar products constitute 10 per
cent of the total food of the average
American family.
Digestion experiments with healthy
men have shown that the fine -four
bread is more digestible than the
bread made from the whole grain.