QUALITY OF WHEAT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19888, 27 March 1930, Page 10

QUALITY OF WHEAT.

CANTERBURY HARVEST. Fears have been expressed in. some quarters that the wet summer in Canterbury would cause the wheat - this year to be below the usual New Zealand standard. As a matter of fact, the rain in Canterbury came at a -time when it was required to fill the grain properly, and then ceased for harvest, giving one of the driest and best harvest months on record. Tests for gluten on. ninety-five samples of wheat so far treated at the Wheat Research Institute show that the percentage of protein this year is just about the same as last year, namely 9.4 per cent., as against 9.5 per eent.; and another four hundred tests conducted by a miller have shown an average of well over last year's 9.5 per cent. Only four wheats from this season's harvest have so far been milled and baked by the Institute, but theße show that an average-looking Tuscan, although it is so new, is giving a better loaf than the average of the Tuscans grown and milled last year. Two tests of Garnet grown this year have given outstandingly good results.