Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-12-12
AGRNCVAYURA A.
LINCOLN CORN FOUNDER

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not eaten and the corn is neither ground
nor boiled. 1t is well established
physiological fact that the good health OF
animals requires that the ailments Tor the
stomach should afford both nutriment
and mechanical disten(ion in due pro-
portions. In the usual method OF iced
ing, these proportions do not exist, and
besides the nutritious quality is only par
tally extracted. The grinding OF corn
is sometimes practised by those who
have mills, and boiling by those who
have not Meal is sometimes mixed
with hot water and fermented. A IL these
are improvements in feeding, but these
are not sufficient. Lately mill OF cast
iron has been invented which CONVEX S
both corn and cob into meal, and Is used
also by tanners in grinding their bark.
This improvement is valuablc.-Ih he
cob, while it affords in itself much nutri-
ment, furnishes degree OF dlstenllon to
the stomach which is necessary 10 It's
proper action. II to this grinding OF the
cob and grain is superadded termenta-
ton or boiling, the economical process
is nearly complete. | have not tme 70
say what the subject requires IN regafo
to Fermentation. Boiling not only rem
ders the articles acted on soluble IN BIG
stomach, but it does more-it adds nu-
triment furnished by the water itself.
The experiments Of Count Rulnlord ale
full and satisfactory on this head. Ltt
those who doubt the nutrlIlye qualities
of water be reminded t3at many kinds OF
fish live, grow and fattcn in pure water,
without any other food whatever. Every
one has seen the gold fisA, wnich have
lived for years in GLOBES OF pure water,
that are sometimes put by the CURIOUS
into cages Of canary birds. Water and
air constitute the entire ailmcnt OF ve9e-
tables and give them bulk Without d.
minishing at all the quantity OF SOIL 10
which they grow. The perfection OF
feeding corn consists in preserving the
cob, grinding the whole mo meal, and
in the cookery. The iron mlll IS eX-
cellent but too expensive Tor most iarst'
ers. What is wanting then is to have
the corn with its cob powdered by some
cheap and simple method that every one
may avail themselves of. Such a one
accident lately ma, le me acquainted with,
and | think it is SO valuable that all.
deslrous of seeing II Introduced int
general use, and shall attempt descrip-
ton ofthe machine by which the process
was effected.
Tbs machine | saw last summer L.
operation on the road between Lincoln
ton and Morganton. twas a Horizontal
shaft with beater al one end, poised by
the weight OF water falling into an exca-
vation at the other. The shait or helve
was about fourteen, possibly sixteen feet
long. At two thirds oil its length from
the beater it rested by notch across
the shapened edge OF piece OF timber
lying in a transverse direction, serving
as the pivot or fulcrum for the shaft to
move on. The beater was piece Of
wood two feet, or rather more, in length,
fixed by mortice and lennon to the end
of the shaft; its face was about two inches
and half in diameter and plated with
iron. The mortar which received this
pestle or beater was the followed end Of
log wide at top, narrow at bottom and
would contain nearly bushel. The
other or shorter end of the shaft was ex-
cavated into trough about three feet
long, eight inches wide and the same in
depth. The extreme inner end of the
trough formed an angle of ascent from
the line of the bottom of about IS de-
grees, affording thereby an easy exit to
the water when depressed by its weight.
This very simple machine, (for have
described the whole of it) was placed
upon the small run of spring branch,
where there was descent Of about two
feet. The water was conveyed into the
trough by spout which approached it
at right angles, and the trough was filled
and discharged about twice in a minute.
Every morning, and again at evening
this mortar was filled with ears of corn
which in twelve hours were found re-
duced to very fine meal. 1t was cspa-
bic of converting to meal three or four
mortars full in day, but two were suffi-
cient for the use Of the plantation, and
the mortar was attended to only when it
could be done with convenience. In a
wet season, when the spring run afforded
more water, it moved with increased
CELEBRITY and was capable of increased
work The machine was without cover,
and observed barn door fowls around it,
but afraid of the motion of the shaft, they
never ventnred to purloin from the
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