The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-04-06


abound al this season Of The year that must be
bold indeed to Suppose that anything new or inter
esting cau De written of brief jaunt up and down
the st. Johns river, especially TO home paper
with home folks for readers; but the temptation
is strong TO chat awhile with the FLoRTDIAS's
readers Of the many changes which have taken
place since your correspondent first made the
trip in 1874 The astonishing growth Of the
towns and villages along this great highway Of
travel within six years is something truly won
derful, and the causes and history Of the many
changes comprise study which may perhaps be
undertaken with profit by our easy-going, old
fogyish population, with q view TO an early use
of some of The appliances which have produced
such changes TO the beloved region which we
delight 10 call home
JACKSONVILLE,
which few years since was but struggling,
dirty town. has become metropolitan in aspect,
and, during the season" puts on its gala dress
and is filed with living, surging mass Of hu
mainly, eagerly bent on an active and untirDg
search for pleasure, novelty or health Water
works, grand hotels, innumerable boarding
houses, stores and shops without end and i'm
proved streets combine TO make il one of the
gayest and lovelest of Southern cities; while
manufactures of various kinds, an already i'm
mense lumber trade, q rapidly developing cotton
trade, and numerous additions TO iis wholesale
trade give appearance of solidity and stability
10 its business elements quite independent OF the
ephemeral traffic supported by the visiting popu-
Iation which 10 the smaller places forms the bulk
of business prosperity.
Among the manufacturing interests which
have been recently developed, the most interest
ing and important by far is that of
THE RICE MILL
of Messrs Hubbard, McDuff and Foster, who
within the past year have erected and put in
operation large and well-appointed establish
ment fitted with the system OF rice-cleaning
machinery manufactured by Geo. L. Squier &
Bro, of Buffalo, New York, the patent right of
which for the entire State, Is controlled by the
rst-named gentlemen A visit to this mill, and
the examination Of its processes, under the cour-
teous guidance of Mr.. Geo. r. Foster, formed
most pleasant and interesting episode OF my jaunt,
and I am sure that q brief description will be
read with profit and enjoyment by many who
are seeking for themselves and their lands favor
able and satisfactory grounds for the overthrow
Of the dominion of King Cotton over them.
The wide range OF adapsability of this rice
cleaning machinery to the wants Of all our farm
ing population, from The vast plantation to the
one-horse farm, Is one Of It's chief merits. A set
Of machines, TO be operated by hnnd or power,
with capacity Of 10 70 100 pounds per hour,
and costing only $3.50, including ihrasl,er which
can he used for wheat or oats 40 well a. for the
rice, or without the thrasher $3.50, will do the
work OF q small neighborhood or good-sized
plantation while the same machines, multiplied
in number and sci In gangs or sections Of to
8 sets each, win perform oil the labor Of regu-
lar merchant mill The process. a. well as the
IL exceedingly simple and easily
managed, and consists Of three distinct instru-
mems, viz: huller, 10 rub Of Qnstead Of beating
In the old way) the hull or chat from the grain
q separator, 10 fan out the chaf and separate the
hulled grains from those which may have passed
through the huller without being hulIed, and
polisher to rub OF the thin, inner cuticle, which,
although the richest snd most nutritious portion
Of the grain, would II lcfs adherng 10 Il, become
moulded and discolored by dampness or the
natural heating of the grain.
The hnller has The appearances Of diminutive
portable grist-milI, The Stones being represented
BY wooden disks made u vertical sections ihe
ends o. che grain OF the wood Of which each b
being In contact, and the surfaces cut
into divisions Ike thoss Of millslone, by tran
verse inches sawed Into the surface sn inch o.
noss Ii depth The motion d applied 70 tie
lower disk By . crank, and = reciprOcating u
oseillatlDe- hallway round and back The nub.
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