THRESHING FROM THE STOOK.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3576, 17 March 1886, Page 3

THRESHING FROM THE STOOK.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE TUIARO HERALD. Sib, — A good deal of correspondence on the above subject has been lately going on m your paper ; I therefore hope you will let mo havo ft word or two. A Winchester miller must be rather a now chum when ho says ho pan dp nothing with the wheat threshed from tho sjtook or he would vomotnbar that m former years it was tho rulo for a)l millera to grind up every bushel of wheat m the country before harvest, and I have five years out of six, commenced grinding for the new season wheat threshed from the stook, and tlia flour has givon great satisfaction to the baker. I always observed that the wheat thus ground m New Zealand had a very different scent to that ground under tho samo circumstances m the Old Country. It ha 3 not that beautiful aroma and sweetness, and grinds more like old wheat. But how would the Winchester miller manage iv Australia, where the wheat is stripped from tho stalk and nover goes into stook or stack ? As to farmers threshing, that must be ruled by various circumstances. This puts mp m mjn4 Qf ft conversation I once heard betwe.en tvrq farmers. Mr B. — "Well, you have threshed your wheat I see." Mr T. — '■' Yes, I wanted the straw, and I hear you have sold your sheep." Me B. — " Yes, I wantpd the, straw." The samo reason no doubt m many oases induces tho New Zealand farmer to thresh, when, if ho could use his own judgment, he would not do so. When once wheat is m the stack it ought not be threshed until it has gono through its inevitable sweating, which at fbe shqrlost time will be six weeks. When threshed jn jts sweat it is neither good for mijler nor merchant;. E, W. March 16th, 1880.