NOTES AND QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2009, 25 August 1892, Page 24

NOTES AND QUERIES.

intending Angler -(1) No, fish cannot hear, but their marvellous sight makes up for this defect. (2) \ou can do as much talking as you like, but tiike every cure to keep out of sight of the fish. If you see a trout you may depend upon it that he saw you before you spotted him, and therefore ltis not much use trying to catch him. (3) The minnow should be drawn across and down stream steadily in swift water and jerky in slight ripples, but at a moderate pace C D, Cambrians".— "Miller" writes -.—Be your query as to yield of flour from Tuscan wheat lhereisno hard and fast rule to go by All depends on the quality-the dryness, dampness, or thick or thin-skinned grain— and the amount of cleaning and scouring required to produco good strong clean flour. Forty-eight bushels, of thoroughly dry and thin-skinned wheat will produce 20001b flour with 1001b of waste, and the balance in pollard and bran. The amount of pollard and bran depends on the quality of pollard made. If very good and me, the quantity will be small. The coarsest of the pollard is generally run with the bran for fanners use as it enhances the value of the feed for stock. On the other hand if it A a damp, wet season, the wheat will be far more difficult to mill, and will require to be ground much higher to produce a good ibur, and the skin bein B thick and the |rain laden with moisture will take from 50 bushels to 51 bushels ur more, according to the amount of dampness 111 the grain, to produce 20001b of flour, with more bran, less pollard, and moro waste, owing to extia scouring and greater ?Sii 1 ? 0 I at * l £ n ? f "^tf" 10 -. Th& wa9te will run 15011) to the ton of iloui- m actual practice, and if not well threshed and cleaned it will waste more iin proportion to the extra amount of dirt heavily bearded and thin grain contains. None of the threshing nulls have any thorough scourinc maehmeiy connected to them. Here are a few of the wastes caused in milling :-First, second, and third, scourings and screenings : fourth, toppings from sieves : fifth, shooting, ,w in? ' Al vl i cle , anine wheat bags of dirt and diibt ; sixth, loss by evnpoiation, a large item in damp seasons; seventh, dust blowing from elevators and bolting reels ; eighth, loss in packinjj especially in poor thin bags All these items go to swell the waste. The miller alone must be the judge, ns the grain must be ground according to the quality thereof, and no man but a practical miller is able to tell the amount of scouring and pressure in Tunl % lequ ' re< i t0 .tfvo a yield of good wMlti i \ fen'c n'J U fcrmen * Properly portant point in the manufacture of flour is quality. If the wheat is dry and good -you must have that, and as much of the quantity as you can get. At Home the yield with coarse diessed Hour sometimes averaged 75 per cent., but 5 per cent, was nothing moro than line fluff, brauny particles, and brandusted flour. In several mills we were only allowed to make 70 per cent, of flour out of thoroughly dry grain (American)- Baltimore wheat was very like the New Zealand Tuscan, and western winter more like red straw Howl evtr, the miller in charge of the grinding Jim? Col AVi ellc f t0 B Js! nd for 70 lucent of w•• a V ove tha f was considered a Jwi f «10« 10 l 0i lg . I<Ul i h l ««'«cUig the standard of the whole of the flour made. With clamp wheats a few wheats used to run from (SO to 07 per cent., according to the exact degree of dampness and toughness of the husk of the f£o"j 11 } eabov e approximate estimates are based on a bushel of wheat measured in a bushel which will weigh 601b, as (>olb of wheat and a bushel of wheat that will weigh when measured 601b arc two different things altogether, to the tune of several pounds of flour to the bushel I ♦hi"* Jt th # "^P r f ssion . that the millets get 'i^Pr W - 11S f t ,? f « the i bai ; g ' lin in wbeat buying. y«i 5 l y five :tenths of the wheat in New Zealand that would not run more than Gslb to the measured bushel This is not fair to tho tn h ;; a i rm T"'i who i e J? heat wiil ruu C3lb Perhaps to the bushel, as both want tho same price for the grain, and the sooner the wheat is bought according to a standard of fixed weight for a measured bushel the better for all concerned. In conclusion, C. D." will Bee that all in all depends on circumstances. If ] le gets quality rL*n ° r W , pe - r ¥? nt - this year ho will do. Dozens of samples in Dunedin this year are very wet and bad. Housewifjx-A thoroughly reliable recipe an. pears m this week's Home Interests in answer to yourquery. W.— Alum dissolved in the boiling fat, or even a handful of slaked lime mixed with the fat when in a liquid state will harden candles. Use lib alum for every 51b tallow. Some dissolve the alum in water and then put it in the tallow and stir till they are well mixed, and then run it into the moulds. Candles made with alum arc hard and white as wax. Constant Reader, Maheno. — None of the biographies at our command mention where Ihomas Moore, the poet, was buried, but as he died on February 26', 1852, at his cottage of Sloperton, near Devises, Wiltshire, England, after residing there for 30 years, it is only reasonable to suppose he was buried in the .Devises churchyard. His wife died at the same place in 1865 Reader, Queenstown.-(l) The Prime Minister of -- J; nn S land > J as Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, receives LSOOO a year. (2) The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland receives L2O 000 per annum. Colleen Bawn.-(I) An Australian contingent was despatched from Sydney to Egypt in 1885 to take part in the Soudan War. (2) Quite' voluntary. The British Government, with the exception of accepting their proffered services and utilising them, had nothing to do with the movement which resulted in their dispatch. (3) None whatever ; their action was simply taken as an evidence of the patriotism of the colonies. (4) Not at all. (5) The author retains the rights unless it is otherwise specially stipulated. J. R., Dunback.— (l) The charge per cable to Great Biitain at present is 10s 6d a word. (2) The words in the signature and address are charged at the same rate as those in the body of the message. Ida Valley.— (l) Not if " some of the members " constitute a majority, and vote the meeting into committee for the purpose of excludhi"lum (2) Certainly not. A.nxious, Dunedin.— (l) The names of the New Zealand football team who visited New South Wales in June 1884 were :— Backs— J. Taiaroa, H. Braddon, G. 11. Helmore, E. Davy, J. Dumbell, H. Roberts, T. Ryan, J. Warbrick ; Forwards--U. S. Robertson, W. V. Millton (captain), E. B. Millton, T. O'Connor, J. Lecky, G. Carter, J. R. Wilson, James Allan, P. Webb, 11. Udy, J. O'Donnell S. G. asks if any reader \\ ill oblige him with a copy of the song " New Zealand for me." "J. B ", in answer to a previous request of a similar nature, kindly ottered to supply the words. Will he be so good as to do so now. Nemo.— We cannot give a satisfactory answer to this question, as the facts are not sufficiently 9 stated, and an answer given in such circumstances is apt to mislead. If the fence was erected after compliance with the provisions of the Fencing Act, then we think A is liable, but not otherwise. Fakmer asks :— A, B, and C bought a freehold section, and A and B, without consulting C and without C's permission, expend L3OO on fencing, Ac. Is C legally liable to A and B for one-third of the expenditure? If the three are merely joint owners then we think C. would not be liable, but if they are partners we. think he would. But it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between joint ownership and partnership. Farsier.— We think you can.

A man named David Whitney was brought into town by the north express on Friday suffering from a crushed foot, and was conveyed to the hospital. It appears Whitney was bushfelling about a fortnight ago in the vicinity of the Kaiapoi river, when a tree fell upon his foot, crushing it rather severely. He received medical attention at the hospital at the hands of Dr Muljin,