The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-09-03
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PURE: WHEAT
CAMPAIGN
F EE DEMONSTRATION
TRAIN WILL BEIN GuTH-
RE MONDAY
EVERY WHEAT GROWER
SHOULD HEAR LECTURES
Propaganda Started TO Eliminate
Mixed Wheat From
Oklahoma

~ SchoOi on Wncclb IL 10 De started
at Guthrie Monday morning. for a
trip over the state. Wherever wheat
Is grown there will be urged the fact
that an enormous loss IS unnecessarily
shouldered by this state and that d
remedy is at hand The wheat specl.
III Is to be a travelling school The
following Is a complete statement OF
the object Of the journey;
Oklahoma this year has produced
about twenty-fomr million bushels of
wheat All over the state the wheat
Is particularly fine In appearances,
with large, plump berries, Weighing
sixtyone to slxty-lour pounds to The
bushel.
The state has specially favorable
conditions for producing choice wheat
and the advantage that large part
OF the crop may be marketed from
one month to six weeks earlier than
wheat grown In the states nortn.
Pure. hard Turkey Red wheat grown
In Oklahoma Is not excelled as mill
Ing wheat and the flour made from II
has no superior in either quality of
bread or number OF loaves per barrel
Yet the wheat growers OF Okla
homa Will lose during 1910 at least
three million dollars, because many
used mixed and mongrel seed last fall,
Few localities can furnish Large
shipments Of pure wheat and In some
towns. the farmers are marketing
wheat that shows a mixture OF three
10 five varieties in every wagonload.
Although this mongrel wheat is plump
and heavy i is bringing from five
TO twenty cents per bushel less than
pure wheat, because Il lacks strength
and does not give sufficient yield
of flour
Strength.
A shipment Of plump, heavy, mixed
Oklahoma wheat was offered to one
OF the large Minneapolis mills. A
baking test OF flour made from this
wheat showed loaf just two-thirds
the size of the loaf made from the
same weight of flour from pure hard
wheat
Baking tests made Of mixed okla.
homa wheat OF the number OF Kansas
City miIlers, showed the loaf to be-
fiOm eightg-four TO ninety per cent OF
normal size depending on how badly
the wheat was mixed. Al the same
time, baking tests of a shipment OF
pure Turkey Red wheat from Okeene
Okla, showed a full sized loaf Of the
best quality.
More than one-half of the bread eat
en- in the United States daily Is made
IN bakeries and they demand flour
that VIII make full sized oayos and
the highest number OF loaves to the
barrel.
Quality Of Flour.
When the miller is ready to grind
wheat. he dampens 1t and allows the
grains TO soften and get into con.
dition where the bran separates best
and the largest per centage OF flour
Is produced. When the exact point
Is reached, the softened wheat Is then
ground.
Each kind of wheat requires DIFF
ferent quantity Of water aud a differ
ent length OF time for softening and
II exactly the right treatment ls not
given, the bran does not separate
well and carries flour with IT. Some
kinds OF wheat require twice as much
water as others and from six to eigh-
teen hours longer to become properly
softened.
When the wheat is made up OF sev.
eral varieties. II Ii OF course, lmpos.
sible 10 give but one kind in the mix.
ture the right treatment to get the
most flour from II and loss in guam
tity OF flour follows Sometimes when
hard and soft wheats are mixed, the
loss equals ton and q half OF flour
TO a thousand bushels Of wheat. The
farmer who raises mixed wheat, has
this loss taken Out OF the price OF his
wheat. 1t costs no more to raise pure
bred wheat than Il does mougrei
wheat, while usually the Yield Is larg-
er and always the price is higher.
The hard wheat grower should sow
pure Turkey Red wheat and the soft
wheat grower should use a pure strain
Of The best yielding variety for his
section. Not bushel OF mixed wheat
should be sown in Oklahoma this
year.
The loss Of money 10 The state from
mixed and mongreI wheat affects eY-
cry man. woman and child In the state
whether thew llve un farms oF In the
towns.
Every farmer, every business man,
The newspapers Of The state. Farmers
Institutes. banks. commercial clubs.
millers and grain shippers. should Join
in the movement to Ret every bushes