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flour mills.
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industry is always combined with the flour trade. Many a farmer who
used to have corn for his own household ground at the nearest mill, now
finds it worth his while to sell his corn and buy his flour. The chief
reason is that the flour from the industrial mills, especially wheaten flour,
is greatly superior in quality to home-ground flour; this is due to the
fact that the industrial mills do not take their corn from one district
only, but blend together corn from places far apart; thus the occasional
differences in quality are to great extent neutralized. Further, Swedish
wheat does not, on the whole, possess the most suitable composition for
baking purposes: in order to produce a really good baking flour,
it is necessary to blend it with harder kinds (richer in gluten) e. g.
Russian wheat. For this reason a great deal of Russian or Hungarian
flour used to be imported and mixed at the bakeries with the Swedish.
The advent of industrial mills has changed this: the corn itself is now
imported. By dint of judicious selection the industrial mills can now
obtain a mixture which yields a flour satisfying the most exacting
requirements, and since at present there is only a small quantity of flour produced
solely from Swedish wheat, the importation of highly glutinous flour is
no longer necessary.
Although rye is, in point of quantity, the most widely used grain in Sweden
for breadmaking purposes, the output of rye flour from the industrial mills is
generally of secondary importance. The explanation of this is that only a small
proportion of rye-flour consists of sifted flour. The national "hard bread" (hårt
bröd), which is the bread par excellence in the country districts, is made almost
solely of bolted flour. As the making of such flour is a very simple process,
and therefore suitable for very small mills, the farmers generally have their
rye ground to bolted flour at the small mills in their own districts. In the year
1912 there were 1 356 mills with 1 822 pairs of rollers and 4 724 pairs of
stones. The whole output was 5 969 878 quintals of flour, groats, bran and
grits, of which 3 999 486 quintals were flour; among the larger mills of Sweden
may be mentioned: Saltsjökvarn and Tre Kronor in Stockholm, Uppsala
Äng-kvarn (steam mill), J. G. Swarts’ Kvarnverk, Norrköping, Kalmar Ångkvarn,
Mårten Persons Valskvarn (roller mill), Kristianstad, Trälleborgs Ängkvarn, Malmö
Stora Valskvarn.
The development of the mill industry during the last years is shown by
Table 72.
As shown in the Table 72 the import of flour, groats and bran has decreased
in recent times. As the import of unmilled grain has at any rate not decreased,
Table 72. The Mill Industry.
Annually Number of mills Number of workmen Output quintals Value of output thousands of kr. Import quintals Export quintals
1901—05 ..... 1627 4 481 5 410 228 92 243 1 208 185 61526
1906-10 ..... 1447 4 161 5 509 807 105 777 1 058 918 66 513
1910....... 1384 3 975 5 612 283 106 392 1 176 667 56 241
1911..... 1381 4 017 5 799 076 108 613 761 891 122 972
1912....... 1 356 4 003 5 969 878 118 194 818 728 305 127
22—133179. Sweden. 11.
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