IN HALF AN HOUR.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 16, 28 February 1913, Page 7

IN HALF AN HOUR.

STANDING GRAIN MADE INTO BISCUITS, AND EATEN. A unique “world’s championship” is held by Will S. Gabel, of Kansas. Mr Gabel claims the world’s short time championship in transforming grain to “light” biscuits. His record, according to the Kansas City “Times,” is thirty minutes flat. Mr. Gabel’s record was made with the aid of his motor car, and the wheat in the process passed through all the ordinary stages—the field, header-box, thresher, mill and bakery —all in thirty minutes. “Some of us farmers got into a discussion as to how quickly this could lie done,” said Mr. Gabel. “It arose over an article in a farm journal which stated that someone had done it in just an hour. I thought I could beat that, despite the fact that my farm was a mile and a half from the mill.

"I made arrangements with the harvesters, millers and an uptown baker. The header entered the wheat field on my farm at 3.14 o’clock in the afternoon. After one minute we gathered the heads from the box and carried them to the threshing machine, which was under full steam in the same field. After another minute the wheat was threshed. About half a bushel was sacked. We placed it in the motor car and made quick time to the door of the milling company’s mill, a mile and a half from my farm.

“The mill hands grabbed the sack and poured it into the feed pipe just above the rollers. In three minutes it was crushed and si.fi.ed. At 3.29 o’clock, we.hastened with the flour in the motor car to a bakery, three blocks away, fourteen minutes later the baker pulled from the oven the smoking hot light biscuits, all ready to eat. It was just 3.44 whem the first bite was taken, or half an hour to the minute from the time the grain was standing in the field.

“I think we could have beat that record had the baker been more expeditious. He insisted on weighing and measuring each part used, andhad to make a second batch after the first one. Had the oven been real hot to begin with the baking would have taken only three minutes instead of ten, which also would have reduced the time seven minutes. But I was satisfied.” Mr. Gabel says he has investigated carefully and is positive that he established a world’s record. A Nebraska farmer has a record of sixteen minutes, but he ground the wheat in a coffee grinder in the field, and baked it in the field. This record is outlawed, because the did not pass through the ordinary processes, and the product wasn’t real flour.—“ Canadian Life.”