Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-09-11
velvet CHAFf wheat
APPEARS TO IMPROVE

That there was considerable Velvet
Chaff wheat shipped into Duluth and
| Superior but none shipped out last
fall is one of the statements made
, in Special Bulletin Is of the North
Dakota agriculture college food de-
partment. The bulletin has the fol-
lowing discussion of Velvet Chan
wheat as compared to hard spring
wheat.
Velvet Chaff VS.. Hard Spring Wheats.
There has been considerable discus
sion as to the relative value of Velvet
Chaff as compared with hard spring
wheats. The experiments made at the
agricultural college mill in 1907 indi'
Gated that Velvet Chaff wheat was con.
siderably inferior to hard spring
wheats for -four manufacture and
bread production. In 1908 there was
very marked improvement in the
quality of the Velvet Chaff wheat, and
in 1909 the tests made in collaboration
with the U. S. department of agricul-
ture are worthy of consideration.
In the milling tests there were ~
hard spring wheats and 8 samples OF
Velvet Chaff and the average for the
milling tests together with the max
imum and minimum yields Of flour for
the several samples are given in the
following table:
Hard Spring Velvet Chaff
Average ...... 679 66.S
Maximum .. 74.S 1875 ,
Minimum ..... 6O.6 CLIO
1t will thus be observed that there
is but very little difference in favor
of the hard spring wheats and had
there been milled as many samples of
Velvet Chaff wheat as of hard spring
wheats it is quite likely that the differ !
ence would have been even less. !
When it comes to the baking tests for
the same samples we have as the av-
erages the following:
Water Weight Vol of
Used of Loaf Loaf
Pct grams &C. Color
% Hard Spring
Samples-Av-
erage ..51.4 AT 24es ss.5
8 Velvet Chaff
bearded sprg.
Samples-Av-
erage SOP 473 24S6 969
1t will thus be observed that in loaf
volume the Velvet Chaff wheat averag.
ed better than the hard spring wheats
and in color it was slightly superior
to the average Of the hard spring
wheats. Judging from the crop Of
1909 Velvet Chaff wheat proved super.
ior to the hard spring wheats of the
state in bread producing qualities.
The difference in price between No.
Northern hard spring wheats and the
best Velvet Chaff wheats has been
from six to ten cents per bushel, but
the milling and baking tests for 1909
do not warrant any such distinction.
While the farmer has received from
6 to 10 cents less for his Velvet Chat
it Is question whether many eleva.
tor men have sold the same for any
less than the price received for No. /
Northern. In fact there are indica.
tons that Velvet Chaff wheat, weight
ing from GO to Ga pounds per bushel,
plump and sound, may be mixed with
hard spring wheats, which owing to
the fact that they were slightly below
weight, were classed as No. 2 North
ern was thereby raised to No. l, the
being an increase of one
grade in hard spring wheats obtained
through the addition of a wheat, Velvet
Chaff, bought for less price. That
such might be the case would seem to
be indicated by statement made BY
one who is in position to know when
he says:
There was considerable Velvet
Chaff wheat brought to Superior and
Duluth last year but there was none
shipped out"
Shoe Renairind Qnne Rinh& AZ