The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-05

mend anything that we had not thoroughly
tested Tor at least six months "A year. we
would save ourselves many uncomfortable
reflections, for Ii is not pleasant to find
AMONGST your mali lets II from fellow MEM
at the gatherings of the national association
telling you that he was induced TO purch sse
patent decorticator, solely upon the reputa-
ton you had given it in letter the agent for
the machine had shown him, and asking you
to tell him how to overcome certain defects
that rendered the article worse than useless,
and To he compelled to acknowledge that You
had kicked the machine out of your mill
months, if not years before, and that the afore-
said certificate had been obtained before You
had used ii week. / see in the milling Jour-
nails every week recommendation on recon-
chimes which they had discarded months ago
The most expensive thing in milling is this
ex' erimenting with new machinery, and al
though the miller is dead who was talked into
believing that the use of a certain patent CRATE
bar would save him 10 per cent. in fuel a patent
cut on 20 per cent, patent damper that saved
~ per cent more, and governor that might
save so would surely save p, and which was
guaranteed to save 20, which, footed up, would
enable him TO make saving in fuel of hun.
millerS who allow themselves to be talked in :
10 experiments on assertions almost equally
absurd. can see no better way out of the
difficulty than that / suggested last year,
namely: Our committee on mill machinery
should designate certain miIlers in different
sections Of the country Qor what
soft winter wheats of Michigan might
be totally useless when employed on the
hard wheatS of Minnesota to test each new
patent as it was brought out, ana knowing
that their verdict was depended on by their
brethren on honor, would be exceedingly
careful in recommending anything that lack
ed merit. This course would not only save
thousands of dollars and weeks OF time to the
fraternity, but would also benefit the inventor,
whose too, process or device possessed intrin-
sic value, and who has now to spend the whole
of his profits and years OF time i'm introducing
trust your committee has given this branch
of our business the thought and attention it
deserves. and before this gathering disperses
that some plan will be matured to simplify
the present expensive mode of trying new
machinery.
Meantime let me urge upon my brother
milers particularly those whose standing and
position entitie their endorsement to the
confidence OF smaller millers, little able, per-
haps, to invest in something that is yet SIM
ply an experiment, to be little more chary
of the prOmiscuous use of their names Very
pleasant doubtless IL is to see your names in
large type in the millers' journals, week after
country Is flooded, but II you will reflect for a
moment that you have your share of il TO pay,
you Will be more conservative in granting the
More has been done since we last met in
systematizing the value of different varieties
of
GRAIN FOR MILLING,
than in all previous years in this country,
and yet we are stlil far behind the English and
continental millers in utilizing the chemistry
OF wheat ana 0Our. lne Michigan association
has been foremost in giving this subject the
attention il deserves, and their memD rs are
already reaping reward for their action
Every description or variety of wheat grown
in this country ought to be analysed, and its
constituent elements known TO every miller
in the land, the cultivation of the poorest
kinds discouraged, and of the better varieties
recommended.
This is a matter so entirely in the hands of
the mlllers that they win have only them
selves TO blame If their fiourS are driven from
markets they now control by those from other
sections where others are alive the fact II. at
the better wheat they use the better flour they
will make, and who take pains TO supply the
farmers of their neighOorhood with seed from
varieties that by analysis prove themselves
most rich in the ingredients of good bread.
must now allude 10 a very unpleasant mat
ter, one that would rather avoid, as it reflects
on so many of the millers and flour dealers of
the whole country. The practice of counter
feiting
BRANDS AND TRADEMARKS
has become such a gigantic evil, that some
steps must be taken by us as a body to put
stop to il. Almost all of the states have laws
on the subject, but it is so difficult and expen-
sive to prosecute attractions of them that they
might as well never have been enacted.
IL is rather costly thing for Missouri mil
Ter, for example, to prosecute some small deal
er In some cut of the way place In the state of
Maine, for counterfeiting or initiating brand
that has cost HIM Years of labor and thousands
of dollars TO establish and most men shrink
from attempting it. That by concerted action
a stop can be put to il have no doubt, and as
perhs ps, as much. If not more, from this per-
nicious practice than any of the rest of US,
feel sure they have devised some feasible pan,
and they are entitled to the thorough support
of this association in carrying that plan out.
In this connection il has occurred to me
that some enterprising publisher could 6 ct up
Book of Brands" that would pay him well,
as, If any larger number of millers would give
1t their support, they would gladly pay for in
sorting a Fac-Simile" of their principal
brands sufficient to pay for the getting up of
X,
country would subscribe for a copy of il. 1t
should be printed in colors, and as there are
(black, blue red and greenl, il ought rot to be
very costly. / would advise some of these
milling journal gentlemen see before me 10
promptly take advantage of this suggestion,
as IL Will be year before they will find so
many millerS together again.
And speaking of milling journals, ii is really
wonderful how many of them have sprung
into existence the past four years. can
name eight OF them printed in the United
States; there are two in England, and do not
know how many on the continent. j read all
of those published in this country, and they
are all good, and L believe ii would pay every
member of this ASSOCIATION TO subscribe for
every one of them. One little item may be of
such importance TO you, some little hint may
crystalize some latent idea that has been run
ming loose in your mind for months, the put
ting in effect of which, for one day, makes or
saves you enough to pay for your subscription
to all of them for years. never
read a copy of the Miller (LondOnl, that don't
learn something that is worth five years SUBJ
scription to it / might say the same thing of
nearly all our home milling publications, but
all of you take one or more OF them, and know
about them. Some of you gentlemen may not
have seen the English publication TO which |
refer, but those who do take IL will advise you
to subscribe for it. Not only must we subscribe
for these papers, but we must write for them,
giving them the result of our experiences and
experiments, and when in doubt ask some
brother miller, through them, to come to our
relief.
MILLERs' SCHOOL OR COLLEGE.
Some little merrIment was occasioned last
year by two New York papers criticising and
ridiculing the matter inaugufated at our last
convention looking TO the establishment OF a
millers' college. Their action was really bene-
fetal i'm that il called public attention to the
subject, and To the fact that in Germany a
very successful technical milling department
was attached to one of their largest colleges.
Your committee 1 know have some valuable
suggestions to make on this subject
Before closing 1 must refer to the terrible
disaster that occurred lately in the
EXPLOSIONS AT MINNEAPoLIS,
resulting as they did in the loss of so many
lives aud the destruction of so much valuable
property.
The United States have been comparatively
free from -four mill explosions, though they
have been quite common abroad, and the