The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-11-09
MANUFACTURES OF FLOUR.


the immense mills in Western N. Y: W 70
Very few Of those who have never been west
of the Hudson river i'm the State Of New York
have any definite idea of the extent of -four
manufactured i'm such localities as Oswego,
Rochester, or Black Rock, near Bufala. The
enormous brick structures for manufacturing
purposes AZ Lawrence, Lowell and Manchester
are very we'll understood, bat Cyclopian pile
Of stone, nine stories high. erected for tho sole
purpose of storing and grinding wheat is rel-
dom thonght Of Take the city Of Rochester
alone, where some thirty mills are just now
commencing thoir fall operations on tho rich
wheat crop at Genesee valley, consuming each.
from four hundred tn three thousand bushels Of
wheat per day. and pouring the results in the
shape ofwheat -four into the commercial laps
of tho eastern cities. from whence 1t is dissem
mat ed into life sustaining currents not only
thrugh the manufacturing districts of New
England, but throuqha large proportion of the
whole commercial world. EfFi fotodriD %
ID A large fleuring mill requires an immense
propellng power. but employs vcrv few hands
in proportion to the amount of business done.
The grain literally goes through the mill and
comes ont -four. without the intervention of n
human hand. A few men experimenting and
controlling the powerful machinery, and gui-
ding the operations. are all that are required.
Il ueV Hll dUOuJ hDDuftHtiN CuTtlc-S uUu uHcou-
cerned among huge wheels in swift revolution,
which by one mis-step would crush them as in
evitablv as a football would crush worm.
A canal boat load of wheat is moored i'm tho
basin beside one of II csc mills. system Of
elevators is let down. consisting of a series of
sheet iron buckets. riveted upon a common
broad leathern belt. passing between two pull
leys, one in tho weighing room Of tho mill, and
the other resting near the wheat in bulk in the
hold of tho boat -Four men with scoops i'm
mediately commence shovelling tho grain into
the ascending buckets. which as they reach the
upper pulley and reverse their direction in the
descending line. spill their contents into the
neiahbnring scale pan. When this is filed md
weighed it is passed. down by trap in tho
the bottom ot the pan into the bin below,
whence il is again elevated to the attic and de-
posted in horizontal trough, ing the
whole length oftho mill Within this trough re
wolves a scrcw-shaft, which carries along the
grain and drops il at any required point, by
means Of sliding gates in the bottom Of tn
trough. through which the wheat drops If any
one of tho series is left open From this lofty
elevation il passes into tho smut bcatcrs and
blowers. thence through the chess and cookie
screens down again to the ground floor into
the hopper of the grinding stones. where the
grain is cracked into commingled mass OF
-four, middlings. shorts. and bran. .rcaffe
But this bruised mass ofwhat was once boau-
tiful wheat, has not reached its lowest point OF
descent yet; for, io Y'ata ot o1tu Il
le 'Tn this lowest depth lower decp
Still ppping to receive 10 opens wide,"
and it falls from the stones into tho cellar of
tho mill. whence it is again re-elcvated to one
of the upper stories and deposited on the floor
| of huge room. called the cooling room. where
it is stirred bp The long arms fixed at right an
giles in an upright shaft. Tho ground wheat
as it comes from the stones is very hot from the
severe friction and crushing it has undergone,
and it is deposited in the cooling room near the
| wall. in largo and continual stream from half a
dozen sets OF mill stones By the operation
of the machinery in this room tho ground
wheat is made gradually to approach the GEN.
tire under continual stirring process, and
there drops through trap into tho boiling
chest in which revolve half dozen long cyl
inders arc slightly inclined one way or tho
other, and tho contents gradually work along
from the finer 10 the coarser bolts, that which
remains craving less and less in quantity. nm
til the refuse bran is finally poured out of the
end Of the last bolt. Tho various qualities of
-four &C., drop from these bolts into the pack
ing bins on the floor ready TO be barroled for
tho market. af.-to.-. ,r-- nav -sfa.F ...r
AL this is done as we havo said, by machin :
cry, almost without tho Intervention of a hui
man hand, and is, besidcsa very quick process.
Wheat which laws in bulk in tho hold of a boat
to day. may be fonr OH its way to New York
or B Boston to- morrow. We have in this CITY two
mills in which this operation is performed, but
we must 90 west of tho Hudson il we would
sec the manufacture of -four on large scale.
We never expect to see the time when flock
of sheep is passed through the mill. and como
out mutton dressed ready NOR the market, and
cloth ready for tho tailor. We never expect
to see the cotton plant iuln out woven fabrics
without the intervention Of pickers, cotton gins
and looms. with tho thousand hands necessa-
ry for their attendance, but in the manufac-
ture Of flour we do see now manual labor COM
parativcly superseded by machinery which is
the result of human ingenuity and skill.
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