Wheat Prospects
Fears have been expressed in some quarters that tho wet summer in Canterbury would cause the wheat this yea/r to be below the usual New Zealand standard. As a matter of fact tho 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 95 samples of wheat so far treated at the Wheat Research Institute, show that the percentage of protein this year is just about tho same as last year, namely 9.4 polecat, as against 9.5 per cent.; and another 400 tests conducted by a miller have shown an average of well over last year’s 9.5 per cent. Onlv four wheats from this season’s harvest have so far been milled and baked by tho Institute, but these 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.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7179, 28 March 1930, Page 8
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