A New Word'
' Not. only the Minister of Agriculture is striving to produce standard products..- the asiobiated nrillers some while ago advertised for a new *Ord: It Was to describe the so-called Offal of the 'wheat grain, which has had' as many names in Country diction as, say, the smallest pig in a litter. In the new farmers' dictionary all these' words—middlings, sharps, pollards and the rest—areto be stidndatized, in the-dictionary phrase, as Obsolete. The new Word 'VVheatings "—a good working word enough though not Altogether 'persuasive—Is definitelY taking their place, now thzt Millers give it a stand- ard valne. The- word will be A great help to all the humbler People who- keep animals: 'Cottagers, especially; have often pAid. heavily:T-16k stuff Of no known feeding value whatever: Animal huiliandmeri On a bigger • scale were -often compelled to einploY-in analyst." All 'that; the millers say, is over : What:tin& is tb' Carry its-Own-guarantee Of quality: All that remains 'is to'prove that--the • quality, especially■the- digesti-
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