WHEAT TESTS

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2134, 13 February 1929, Page 5

WHEAT TESTS

FOR PROTEIN CONTENT

t-Par Press Association)

Christchurch, Feb. 12

Testing of this season’s wheat for ■protein content is being carried out by the Wheat 'Research Institute at Ohristehurelf. An arrangement has been made with the threshing mill owners Whereby a sample is provided from every fourth pmklock threshed. Some of the samples have come in already and about 3000 are expected. The Wheat Institute was established recently w&tfcj the. idea of improving the standard of wheat and flour, and enabling halt-! ers to make a. uniform loaf. The work of the Institute is subsidised by the Government £ for £'■