Modern flour milling
£54.00
A Text-book for Millers and Others Interested in the Wheat and Flour Trades. 3rd Edition.
Hard cover, 484pp., Â with numerous illustrations of Victorian milling equipment, tables and diagrams. The author was Mill Manager at the Albert Flour Mills in Gloucester and was awarded a list of honours for his milling in the 1880s. Several pages of illustrated adverts relevant to millings at the back.
Wheat and its analysis; Geography of wheat growing; Natural properties of English and foreign wheats;
The movement and storage of wheat; Wheat cleaning and special difficulties of what cleaning; The conditioning of wheat; Wheat mixtures and mixing;
Gradual reduction milling;
The grooving of rollers; The break plant;
Middling purifires and purification of middlings; Roller mills; Flour dressing machines and plansifters;
Milling colonial and foreign; Elements of flour milling;
Sites and buildings; Flour yields and values;
Sampling and testing; Fire and fire appliances;
Dust collecting and mechanical details;
Commercial and legal; Mill management; Complete milling systems.
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