The great corn milling States were Tennes me, 1,601,607 barrels; New York, 1,470,365 )arrels ; Virginia, 1,099,215 barrels; and Texas, l,042,654 barrels. The largest output of rye our came from Minnesota, 579,648 barrels; and Wisconsin, 501,475 barrels. The largest pro luction of hominy and grits came from Indiana, !92,131,101 pounds; Illinois, 154,209,222 pounds; and Wisconsin, 94,955,277 pounds.
The number of mills grinding only feed for ive-stock was 2,940. These mills consumed 3,507,330 bushels of corn; 23,050,719 bushels •f oats ; and 17,687,860 bushels of other grain. ['he feed produced amounted to 2,287,127 tons, rallied at $74,800,863.
With the entrance of the United States into he war it became necessary to adjust the wheat .apply equitably among the Allies, and to spare 'rom the United States crop an unusual amount or export, substituting the flour of other grains or a part of the normal consumption of wheat lour. This condition already prevailed in other .ountries, and had been met in part by milling i larger percentage of the grain into fine flour han had been the custom. In Great Britain it was required that 81 per cent of the wheat be returned in flour; an admixture of from 5 to 15 er cent of other grain — rye, rice, corn, oats. iarley, or beans — being permitted, and in many instances quite essential to bring the required percentage. In France, 80 per cent was the re quirement; in Germany, 94 per cent for wheat, and 80 per cent for rye; in Austria, per cent for wheat and 82 per cent for rye. In the
United States the requirement was 80 per cent for wheat and 66 per cent for rye. In Great Britain the attempt was made to grind wheat and corn together, which proved at first a fail ure owing to the moisture content of the corn germ, always removed by American millers. The American mills adhered strictly to grinding the different grains separately, and produced their mixed flours by mixing the flours of the separate grains.
The greatest commercial problem before the milling industry is that of competition, but this is no longer a problem of individuals, but of nations. It is first a competition for the raw materials, and then for the flour trade. Europe buys immense quantities of American wheat (259,642,533 bushels in the fiscal year 1914 15), and with the flour made therefrom enters the world's markets against American flour. The American miller will not feel that all his problems have been solved until the surplus of the wheat crop of the United States is no longer exported as raw material, but as manufactured flour. See FLOUR, WHEAT. Consult Amos, P. A., of Flour Manufacture' (Lon don 1912) • Millers' Almanack and Trade Year 1915-16 (Minneapolis 1915) ; Oliver, C. E., he Miller and Milling Engineer' (Indi anapolis 1913) and the reports of the 1914 Census of Manufactures (Washington 1917).