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Title: Wheat and flour primer
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Washburn-Crosby Co. (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Subjects: Wheat Flour Flour-mills
Publisher: (Minneapolis) : Washburn-Crosby Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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reaten its life or perfect development. Insects,chinch bugs and weevil, smut, mildew, and other forms ofmold and fungus assail it; yet in spite of any and all theseenemies sun and soil ripen the most magnificent crops of wheatgrown anywhere in the world. The hum of the reaper and binder is heard early in Augustand the grain, grown tall and yellow, is cut and bound in sheaves,in which form it awaits the threshers. Sometimes upon thesmaller farms the wheat is stacked to protect it from rain, andit there awaits the work of the thresher; but on the largewheat farms it is threshed at once from the shocks. The threshers, driven by horse or steam power, separatethe kernels from the straw and so reduce the bulk of the cropas to prepare it for storage in the elevators, or to be at oncetransported to the mills and there prepared for food for bothman and beast. The provident farmer reserves the finest of his wheat fornext years seed, but this will be a mere fraction of the crop. GOLD MEDAL FLOUR
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BIG RECEIVING ELEVATOR W A 8 H B U B N - C R O 8 B Y CO. WASHBURN-CROSBY CO. STORING THE WHEAT All visitors to Minneapolis have seen the immense eleva-tors of the Washburn-Crosby Co.—large, high buildingsprovided for the grading and storage of the wheat crop. Let us follow a carload of wheat from the Red River Valley,where the finest northern wheat is grown, to the great Wash-burn-Crosby Mills where more than 100,000 bushels of grainmay be consumed in one day in the manufacture of GoldMedal Flour, the standard brand of the world. The cars run on tracks up to the doors of the immensereceiving elevator where big power shovels scoop the grain upand drop it into a scale hopper from whence it goes to theconcrete tanks later to be elevated and passed through thevarious processes which fit it for reduction to flour. THE MILL Weeds of many sorts have grown luxuriantly with thewheat and their seeds are mingled with the grain. To grindthese with the wheat would change both the color and flavo

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