FLOUR FROM WOOD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 August 1917, Page 3

FLOUR FROM WOOD.

In Germany, says Professor Delmer in the Times, there is at preisent in use a method secretly but very extensively practised of obtaining a kind of flour from wood. This "flour" goes by the name of HoQzemehl. The Russian forests in the occupied districts, he has heard, are being ruthlessly cut down and turned into wood-meal. This woodmeal is intended primarily to serve as a cattle food. "Of its nutritive properties I know nothing. They are said to be low. Bread is also made from it, and I am told that it is given to the soldiers. I am more inclined to think it is reserved ass a delicacy for the prisoners' camps."