WHEAT RESEARCH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 6 September 1935, Page 5

WHEAT RESEARCH

WHAT IS BEING DONE IN AMERICA UTILISING WASTE PRODUCTS (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, This Day. Mr H. West, a chemist at the Wheat Research Institute, returned to-day after three months’ investigation overseas. He said the industry in America had been faced with severe loss owing to the steadily increasing consumption of bread, but great advances had been made by giving the public a greater variety, not only in shape but in taste, and big baking firms were now making thirty or forty specialty lines. He found research going on everywhere he went in America. The Government had an institute similar to ours, but every big mill had its own laboratory. Outside industries were assisting, for instance, the dried milk and biscuit industries, and their discoveries were made-avail-able to the milling and baking industry. At Ames he found fine work was being done in utilising waste agricultural maaterials. Cornstalks, wheat straw, and sugar cane were treated and compressed into a form of fibre board. Mr West said flour was graded differently in the United States and _ it was difficult to make a comparison. Commenting on the general outlook, Mr West said crops in the southern regions of America had been almost obliterated by drought, wind, and sandstorms. In the north crops were badly affected by rust and some were yielding no more than twelve bushels to the acre. The Canadian crops were good, but in both countries the yield would be below the average. That would not affect the market, because there was a heavy carry-over.