THE PRICE OF BREAD.
It mar be of interest to your readers to know that on the average a good variety of wheat produces the following percentage of mill products: 70 per cent flour, 16 per cent pollard, 14 per cent bran. A bushel of wheat weighs 601b and 10/ worth of wheat at «/ per bushel would yield 701b of flour and 301b of pollard and bran. It would hardly be fair to ask a baker what is added, but, say, 33 1-3 per cent *at an additional cost of 2/6; that brings the cost of material to 12/6. The sales would be 931b of bread at 3id, approximately £1 7/. There is still the sum of 1/9 to the miller for bran and pollard. Why, in the old days any miller would gladly mill your wheat for part of the by-products. I still think thai if farmers would grow a few acres of wheat, and have small co-operative district mills and the housewives baked their own bread it wonW be better for health and help the pocket, besides providing a fair supply of pollard and bran, to sav nothing of the straw. JLJ.G£*
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 174, 25 July 1930, Page 6
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194THE PRICE OF BREAD. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 174, 25 July 1930, Page 6
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