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  The Cambridge Manuals of Science and
  Literature


  THE STORY OF A LOAF OF BREAD




  CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

  London: FETTER LANE, E.C.

  C. F. CLAY, MANAGER

  [Illustration]

  Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET

  London: H. K. LEWIS, 136, GOWER STREET, W.C.

  WILLIAM WESLEY & SON, 28, ESSEX STREET, STRAND

  Berlin: A. ASHER AND CO.

  Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS

  New York: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

  Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.


  _All rights reserved_




[Illustration:

  THE STORY OF
  A LOAF OF BREAD

  BY

  T. B. WOOD, M.A.

  Drapers Professor of Agriculture
  in the University of Cambridge

  Cambridge:
  at the University Press

  New York:
  G. P. Putnam’s Sons

  1913]




  Cambridge:

  PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
  AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

_With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on
the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known
Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521_




PREFACE


I have ventured to write this little book with some diffidence, for it
deals with farming, milling and baking, subjects on which everyone has
his