SUCCESS OF WHEAT RESEARCH

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21258, 1 September 1934, Page 14

SUCCESS OF WHEAT RESEARCH

KKI'OKT ON [NSTITI I K'S WORK 1 i p ruiii Our Parliamentary Reporter. J WELLINGTON, August 31. The activity at the Wheat Research Institute during the year has exemplified well the value of scientific co-operation with the three sections of the wheat industry, according to the annual report of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, tabled in the House of Representatives to-day. The repoi t states that a new wheat, cross 7, lias been brought to a stage of commercial exploitation, and after exhaustive, trials has shown a high per acre yield capacity, and an increased yield of flour, associated //ifh a definitely higher baiting quality. Further testing and sclccion has enabled some of the less lesirable varieties of wheat to be eliminated, and replaced by varieics of better quality. * Research experience gained in previous years, says the report, has low made it possible to give guidmce to matters which help to over•ome the difficulties associated with tie gristing of wheat harvested in lifficult conditions. Bakers have lad a number of their own specific M'oblems dealt with, while the inidence of the whole research, car■ied out as it has been with the idlest co-ordination through ail ;tages from the sowing of the seed o the baking of the bread, lias re- ■ lilted in a standardised product of norc even and higher quaili;/ ih.:\u vould otherwise have been possible.