INDEX
Reading edition
Aerated bread, 104
Amino-acids, 116
Ash of bread, 119
Baking, 63, 91
Baking powders, 102
Biffen’s new varieties, 49, 59
method, 41, 46, 58
Bread, amount in diet, 127
composition of, 109
variations in, 120
water in, 135
Break rolls, 81
Breeding of wheat, 29, 35, 40
Burgoyne’s Fife, 59
Climate suitable for wheat, 2, 28
Clover as preparation for wheat, 8
Colloids, 67
Continuous growth of wheat, 7
Crookes, Sir W., shortage of nitrogen, 5
Cropping power of wheats, 32
Cross-breeding, 40
Digestibility of bread, 124
Dressing wheat, 16
Dry farming, 10
Elements required by wheat, 2
Energy-values, 111
Fat in bread, 113
Fermentation in dough, 94
Fibre, 114
Field plots, accuracy of, 32
Fife wheat, 47, 57
Flour, composition of, 122
grades of, 88, 122
self-rising, 102
Food-value of various breads, 120
of starch, etc. in bread, 110
Foreign wheat growing, 21
Fuel-values, 111
Futures, 26
Germ, food-value of, 132
in milling, 89
in bread, 114, 132
Gluten, 63
properties of, 68
Grades of flour, 88, 122
of wheat, 23
Home Grown Wheat Committee, 53, 56
Hopkins’ work, 132
Hybridisation, 40
Improvers, flour, 100
Indigestible matter in bread, 114
Inheritance in wheat, 41
Johannsen, 37
Judging wheats, 60
Lawes and Gilbert, 4
Liebig, 3
Little Joss wheat, 51
Manuring wheat, 3, 7
Markets, home, 16
foreign, 22, 27
Market quotations, 19
Mendel’s laws, 40
Milling, history of, 74, 77
effect of, on flour, 122
Mineral manures, 3
Minnesota experiments, 36
Natural moisture in wheat, 52
Nitrogen, cost of, in manures, 4
fixation, 8
for wheat, 4
from air, 6
scarcity of, 5
synthetic, 6
Ovens for baking, 99
Patents flour, 88
Pedigree in wheat, 39
Phosphates in bread, 119
in diet, 131
in flour, 70
Plots for yield testing, 32
Protein, cost of, in diet, 116
in bread, 115
Prout’s system of farming, 7
Pure-line theory, 37
Purification of flour, 86
Rainfall for wheat, 2
Red Fife, 47
Reduction rolls, 87
Roller mill, 79
Rotation of crops, 9
Rothamsted experiments, 4
Rust-proof wheat, 51
Sale of bread, 105
of wheat, 16
Scaling loaves, 96
Selection for cropping power, 35
Self-rising flour, 102
Separation of flour, 85
Semolina, 86
Sheep-folding, 10
Soils for wheat, 2
“Standard” flour, 135
Starch in bread, 110
Stone mill, 75
Strength of flour, cause of, 62
of flour, test for, 66, 72
of wheat or flour, 53
Strong wheats, characters of, 60
value of, 59
Sugar in bread, 112
Synthetic nitrogenous manures, 6
Thrashing wheat, 15
Turbidity test for strong wheats, 73
Variety of wheat, choice of, 28
testing, 32
Virgin soils, 5
Water in bread, 109, 135
Weak wheats, characters of, 61
Weights and measures, 17
Yeast, growth in dough, 94
Yield of wheat, conditions of, 28
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