WORLD'S LARGEST BAKERY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10777, 27 May 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

WORLD'S LARGEST BAKERY.

The largest, bakery in the world is located in" Essen, Prussia, the home of the great Krupp gun factory, ti is a vast building in which seventy workmen, divided into two shifts, work night and day.

Evrvthing is done by machinery, says the London Post. A 'screw turns unceasingly n knending trough, into which are poured some water and ten sacks of flour of 200 pounds each. ... - This machine makes about 40,000 pounds of bread each day in the shape of 25.000 small loaves and 25,000 large loaves, produced by 230 sacks of flour of 200 pounds each. All the operations of brendmaking are performed in this colossal bakery. The wheat arrives there, is cleaned, ground, and brought automatically to the kneading trough by a series of rising and descending" pipes. ' r • There are thirty-six double -ovens,nitd the workmen who w.-.tch over the baking of the bread earn from 8 to 10 crnts mi 'hour', making an average of HO cents':! day for eleven hours "on. dirty.; Tliey have coffee t and. bread free;; a]?o the use - of a bathroom, for-they are to keep themselves spotlessly '.-lean,'and must wash their hands eighttimes a day. '