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Show Test of Flour. Tho lottpra XXXX. which decorato our flour bags aro a source of mystery to the nvcrago housewife, but got thero very naturally. In tho largest flour mills several tests are given all flour sent out, but tho final test Is tho baking trial. In a kitchen attached to tho flour mills, which is resplendent with shining pans, electric ovens, and whlto cooling boards, thero nro loaves of broad mado dally from tho dlfforent samplos of flour which havd just been ground. Cooks aro kopt tho year around for this purpose, for as many as sixty loaves nro mado dally by ono mill alone. Exactly nt 3 o'clock In tho afternoon, after-noon, after the bread Is dono, tho head millers fllo into tho kitchen and cut and Inspect tho different loaves. No man knows which flour has como from his mill, so the tost is an impartial one. A voto Is taken on tho best loaf, and tho flour from which that was mado Is markod with tho mysterious X'b. So great has UiIb business ot -testing flour become that ono building In Minneapolis has tcstlng-roomB to, -wh,l,ch Bamplep ot grain aro sent from all ovor tho United States and Canada. Theso samples nro mado into bread after going through a mlniaturo flour mill. After tho bread has been mado tho package of grain is sent back to tho mlllor who shipped it with full directions, di-rections, how to mark his flour, whoth-or whoth-or best or second best. |