To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. September 10, 1845.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 50, 20 September 1845, Page 2

To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. September 10, 1845.

Sir, — For the information of your correspondent " A Settler," I beg to furnish the following statement taken from a late English agricultural paper : — " Sixty pounds of good wheat when sent to the mill, should yield the following produce — Flour, best seconds 46 lb. Bran, &c 12j.. Waste IJ.. 60

I have named the average amount of waste, but in some places the custom of the country allows the miller 2lb., and in that case, of course, he is entitled to that allowance, &c." Colonel Le Couteur President of the Jersey Agricultural Society, in one of his papers on the culture of wheat, speaks of a variety that gave 501b. of first flour to the bushel of 62 lb. ; this must have been a very fine sample. In America and Upper Canada, it is not at all uncommon to receive Irom the miller 48 lb. of flour per bushel of 60 lb. ; and I have no doubt when we get better machinery, but our wheat will give a return fully equal to that of America or any other country. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, B.