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RefNoMS/527/1/6/22
LevelItem
TitleReport, musty maize
Date7 May 1918
DescriptionPrepared by A Chaston Chapman for the Royal Commission on Wheat Supplies. Notes that he was requested by the Food (War) Committee to investigate treatment of some mouldy maize supplies from America to make it fit for human food -- describes his experiments hand-picking the sound grains from the mouldy ones -- notes that there is machinery capable of this at flaked maize mills -- gives compostitional values of the sound and mouldy maize -- suggests ways of processing the 'sound but slightly mouldy maize' -- recommends a process of washing the grains, removing husks and milling.
Extent8pp
FormatTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
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