The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-03
TIA Cheerfai Experience ef an Isventsr
or Milling Machinery.

.s-'.Bran Is not what Il used TO be-" q
New York miller said. plunging his
hand into bin full Of what looked like
shaky Jark,brown meal. '.It used TO
uiake good feed for cattle. Now 1t Is
almost like sawdust. Bran, you know.
Is the outer she'll Of y grain OF wheat.
When wheat is ground the interior pull
verizes into -four. Tho shell doesn't The
whole product b sifte,l In silk sleeves
called reels. and the -four passes out
through the mcshes Of the silk. The
bran which breaks bat docs not powder
remains. In the good old days we hear
about. bran was used for feed. II was
good feed. too, because q. quantity Of
Hour adhered to II even with the most
careful sitting or bolting. rs II Is called. :"
Doesn't The -four aiherc to tho
bran In the new process OF grindng"
"Of course II does. bit man In the
western part of the State. having the
love OF riches aud q knowledge OF patent
laws before his eyes, invented q ma
chine for taking itho -four ont Of the
bran. II consisted OF an upright
cylinder OF fine wire cloth. two feet in
diameter by four feet' In length. prop
crly supported by frame on tho Out
sida. Inside ofihe cylinder were placed
hair brushes about rs long as the
cylinder. They were secured to n
central shaft by arm, long enough to
make tho brush come ont close to the
wire cloth. They were made adjust.
able so they could bc showed out as they
woro away. They werc -revolvcd NJ
from two hundred and fifty to four hun
drcd rcvolu ions q minute. The bran
was fed in between the brushes and the
wire cloth aud the spccks Of Hour were
rubbed OF and out through the cloth in
n jiffy. A wooden case kept the stun
from flying all over the mill and spout
conveyed Il - q bin. An automatic
knocker kept 1t from choking up bc-
tween tho case anil the wire cloth.
After time it was apparent that some
kinds o! bran made tho case swell. and
they made il an ironclad machine, and
there II is complete as bran duster."
"Poor sort OF flour came from 1t, one
would think"
lit was not genuine sea spray, OF
course. but II was Hour instead of chick
Tn feed. va. t-
"Did the inventor spend his few re.
naming years overcoming tho prejudice
of millers. and die of q broken heart
and too much bran dusterph ..-
"lle didn't. He built his machine In
n great numbers rs limited means and
a lack Of sympathy among fellow
townsnen would permit He took 1t
TO millers near about and said: This
Il a good machine. Ii will pay for IL
self In about six months. and will last
for years Then the miller would feel
sorry for tho enthusiast and say he
didn't need any new machinery. The
inventor had expected thar and would
say: i know what l am about. l will
put the machine In the mill ut my own
expense II you wiz send to me all tho
-four you get from 1t during years
work by running all your bran through
the machine. I'll pay the freight on the
-four. You can send the flour TO mo at
tho end of each month That looked
Ike fair proposition. and the miller
took II up every time. BY and by the
machine was in place, and the bran was
going In gray and coming out black.
while small stream Of flour was run
ming away 10 q bin with pcrsistency
that 10 day or two became alarming
to the miller" I
"Why?' -''''''.
"Becaise il made such heap in the
bin. The miller calculated that the
machine over in the corner was making
pound of Hour for every bushel OF
grain that ran through the mill stones.
Where the miller turned out twenty-five
or one hundred barrels Of -four u day,
that was quite heap. A little figuring
showed that the Hour at the end Of the
month would pay for tho machine"
"How much in cash as.that?"
Prom two hundred to five hundred
dollars. according to the capacity.
When he saw that he had agreed to pay
twelve prices for the machine he began
to pay attention to a postscript to the
contract which said that IL the miller
wanted TO cash up inside Of thirty DAYS
he could do so. He cashcd up every
time"
"rhc inventor had 1t all his own way
at once p q.
"Notexactly. There are half dozen
varieties Of the machine. owned BY diff
fcrent manufacturers. and there Is COM
petition in the trade. Still. the man l
tell YOU OF Is capitalist instead of q
wage.worker. and that's moro than
most inventors have accomplished
n. i. san.