The Grange advance., 1873-10-29

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Eirst. Tho Aax 3sesd s nm between the large
Iron rollers and = isimply :nasked slthough =
cones ftom the rollers With the appsarancs g hav
ing been ground.
Second. II ts then IshOyelod on to large plat.
form where It is more thoroughly crushed or
munched BY means Of two immense wheels which
roll around uponit. This process Il facilitated By
. little m0istening. & s8
Third. It 10 then PLACED into heaters. o. which
they have four. These heaters are much the shape
Of millstones. The inside 10 hollow aud divided
larger OF which the crushed seed is placed, ana in
to the other steam is conveyed by tubes. which
furnishes the heat:
Fourth When 1t is sufficiently heated, it is
placed into little bags and these bags are put into
the presses of which there four, corresponding
with the four heaters. The presses are operated
by hydraulic power, but they use oil instead Of
water. !. 1t remains in tho presses about twenty
minutes
In short the processes are crushing, heating,
and pressing, and when the oil is produced. it is
conveyed into large tank in separate building,
from which it is barreled to sell raw as it is then
put through the process which produces what is
known as boiled oil. The advantage of this pro-
cess is that when used for painting buildings, the
boiled oil dries much quicker than the raw. When
the pressing is completed the mash is taken from
the press in cakes about two feet long and nine in
ches wide, and in this condition is called oil cake
This is packed in large coarse bags which hold
about 2s5 pounds each, and is shipped to England
where it is used feed for horses and CATTLE The
Company sell this oil cake at SIS per ton while the
English and Scotch farmer pays 665 per ton for the
very same article. Now it becomes very import
ant question for our farmers to consider whether
it will not pay them to use this oil cake for feed
1t would seem if the English farmer can afford to
pay $65 per ton 1t would pay our farmers to use it
at $25. I submit the question for their consider
alton. This company has shipped near 5000 tons,
while they have sold less than five tons at home
The cake has to be ground before it is used, and
SO limited ia the home demand that the company
have not yet put in their grinder: The capacity
OF these works is about $50 gallons of Oil per day
Mr.. Willard informed me that last spring the
Mankato Co furnished the farmers with 10000
bushels OF seed, which al three pecks to the acre.
was sufficient to SOW 800 acres, and that the
demand would probably have exhausted 10000
bushels, if they could have supplied it. am very
sorry that the peculiar circumstances of last sum.
mer and fall will not admit of accurate estimate
OF the amount yielded. The grasshoppers de.
stroyed large portion Of it, but how much can
not easily be ascertained The Company furnished
the seed at certain price and upon the agreement
that they should take the whole Of the crop at
$1,35 per bushel, provided the farmer delivered
the same by the 18th of September. This was not
very generally done, although the company con-
tinued to take the seed upon these terms up to
the time of the money panic. The company now
have about 2S,O0O bushels in their warehouse, and
crop so far this year has cost them about $12O
There is yet large quantity unsold. There is
also another source Of profit for those who live
near The works The Company pays about $12
per ton for straw, the price being regulated some
what by the distance OF transportation. They
have two mills running in Blue Earth County
making tow, but the amount of straw that they
can take is somewhat limited. Mr.. willard says
| that upon careful estimate, based upon all the
facts at his command, the same aca1eage of wheat
would not have returned the farmers within $4O.-
600 as much as they will realize from the fax seed
These are ali the data that 1 can now
furnish in relation to growing flax seed, and am
aware that they are rether meagre, but shall at
some other time call upon the Minneapolis Com
pany, and perhaps gather additional facts In the
mean time would suggest that some Of the farm.
| ers who have grown fax seed furnish the GRANGE
ADVANCE with the results of their experience,
for the benefit Of the large class who have yet
tried it, 1t is very necessary that farmers should
thus interchange the results of their experience.
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