Show WHEAT FIVE PER CE CENT DIRT En Pro PIOl t CM t Against ln t Practice lIce tice tle of India hula Shipper Shipper- Republican Special Service Washington ton Juno June IS The The Department Depart Depart- meat ment of or Commerce antI and ant Labor In a statement given out says that thal the lie In India In- In dia Wa correspondent makes muli 8 some tome horrifying Ii hor hor- or- or statements h by way of or explanation ion tion ton of or the hi bitter tel protests pi made mado by English millers on account of the lie admixture ad ad- mixture of 0 dirt with wih wheat Imported from front India The fhe writer says Tier i Iii In n Canada the United States Slates Argentina Ar Ar- gentina and antl probably also in g Egypt and ant Russia nUSia the wheat Is cleaned In tl threshing machines In India and throughout the East it I Is threshed h by being trodden out under the feet feel of or oxen in the open ollen Held field It I stands to reason that by hy this lila method there mu must l bo be a largo large admixture o of dirt dirt of or simple sim tile field fell earth with wih the wheat Th The Tue recognized proportion of or dirt allowed allo b by English micI millers is iM G 6 per lieu cent hence It Il is the common practice of Bombay merchants engaged In the wheat trade to t keep in their warehouses on the he Port lort Trust Bombay Domba two sets of oC ma ma- chines dunes AH All 1 their wheat as it Il arrives In the lie warehouse Is hI sampled That which contains more moie than C 5 per cent of if t dirt Is put through thi the lie cleanIng cleanIng cleanIng clean- clean I Ing machine to get rJ rid of or the dirt dirt This cleaned wheat is then put through the mixing machine where I It receives Its is exact 5 S per ncr cent cont of dirt and Is then hell rad ready for Cor the lie wheat market In Europe The Thc correspondent says mys that It I Is thi this in miserable system which elevators being erected In Bombay and the lie wheat tt as It IL i afI s by oy train heln delivered I direct on 01 board tho lie steam steamers ers erg although the tile larger lai-ger Hour 10 1 In Bombay Cul fully recognize the value of or ita each their having ht own wheat whet ele atol elevator for Cor their thel own con consumption But ut he lie adds adds thin the reform needed Is forthe for Cor forthe the ml millers r In Europe gradually to I reduce their allowance o of until it Is abolished altogether As I lo long lOlS as millers mUNs mUN's In III Europe deduct B 5 f per cent centor for or dirt go S o tong longwill wi they lucy get It I. I Eastern Eastern East East- ern wheat wheal shippers can cn ami I not ot be bo expected expect expect- ed to lose C G per ier cent on each shipment ship ship- ment and ant therefore the they add tho the deficiency of or dirt in each sample as it arrives |