Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-09-03
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Roller Mills
Two of Them Now in Full
Blast in Napoleon.
A Brief SIX etch of Rollers Mammoth
,. City Mills.
vocke's Big Mill as Seen bv North.
west Faber Pusher.

Most of the NORTHWEST readers have ex-
perienced no inconsiderablea amount of incon- |
venince from the protracted shutdown of
the Touring mills of this city. This tempor-
ary inconvenience will be more than COM |
pensated for in the superior quality of flour
now being made under the newprocess adopt |
ed by the two large mills of Napoleon.
The other day NORTHWEST scribe strolled
into the mill of the
VooKE BROTHERS,
and after exchanging greetings with the
affable brothers, was marched up and intro
duced to Mr.. L. M. Williams, head miller.
Mr.. Williams halls from Norwalk. He was
born and reared in a mill, has gone through
several successive stages of improvement In
the sceince of milling, and understands all
the minutia of mill machinery from the "lit-
tie, but O, JerusalemI" turbine wheel, buried
under nineteen feet of water, to the bran
duster in the garret. Mr.. Williams, the
scribe found to be very pleasant gentleman,
who took supreme delight in showing up the
machinery and numerous processes which
| the little grains of wheat are compelled to
pass through before they are prepared for
use as bread stuffs.
Few people have any idea of the immense
amount of grinding" it takes to make
-four or meal Under the new roller process
now used in this mill, there are on the first
floor fourteen sets of Stevens patent rolls,
through each one of which the wheat has to
pass, each pair of rolls grinding the berry to
a finer degree. On this floor are also two
burrs for grinding buckwheat, corn and chop
On the second floor are eight scalpers,
whose funtions are to seperate the coarse
floor thirteen of the latest improved bolts
and three centrifugal reels, two Martins pat
ent and one Silvercreek, these are compar-
atively late invention for boiling flour.
On the third floor are to be seen the wheat
cleaners, three in number, as follows: Zig
gag separator, Smut machine, and brush.
On the fourth floor are located the meal
bolts, three of the celebrated Geo. I. Smith
purifyers, each supplied with a Prinz dust
collector, whose Office as the name implies is
to remove all dust from the -four. There is
also on this floor one bran duster. On this
floor Mr.. Williams opened one of the bran
elevators and taking out handful of wheat
husks remarked, at is not our purpose te
make first class quality of bran. Our mil
is constructed with view to getting all the
7 -four out of every grain of wheat that goes
through the rolls. 1t is not bran we are
after" The scribe sifted little of the brar
} through his tiny fingers and concluded thai
when he turns prodigal he will not go te
Vocke's mill for husks.
The mill has been reconstructed from toI
to bottom, and the capacity increased to 12
; barrels of -four every "a hours. The motiv'
4 power for all the machinery in this mill i
!, furnished by two Leffel turbine water wheel
of 80 horse power each. 1t required a tru
philosopher to conceive the idea of two littl
/. wheels, not over three feet in diameter, furn
y ishing the power to move such vast machin
cry, and it requires considerable credulity t
~ believe even after seeing it.
!. This mill does not intend manufacturing
I large number of grades of -four, but the air
is to give the farmer the full benefit of all th
. flour his grain will produce in aninferio
/ grade, that the millers may speculate an
n grow rich from the creamsof the farmer
wheat, but that he (the producer) may &c
lust what his wheatwill make. With this en-
Is in view no effort is made to seperate th
II cream, or patent, -four from the common
!, hence the farmer and merchant both get th
same quality of -four, and, all things els
70 being equal, sour bread will be the fault {
1t the baker. Itmust not, however, be forgo
N ten that prime -four cannot be made froi
poor wheat; nor can full measure of fior
% be squeezed out of a bushel of dirty whea
Is The mill is making from five to ten per cen
,e of low grade -four which is shipped to eas
ern markets. This low grade merchant flo,
is made to raise the grade of the home art
70 Gle.
ss In conversation with Mr.. Johnny Vocl
;s regarding the amount of -four produce
from bushel of weeat, he said: II kno
~ there lisa common complaint among larf
1T class of farmers that they do not get guam
,s ity of flour, from their grists, correspondent
to the amount of wheat, and the miller
u charged with dishonesty. This is due, pril
Of cipally, to the condition of the whe
il. brought to the mill. If the farmer wou
clean his wheat properly before bringing
- to mill, substance of this complaint would
ut wiped out"
ID In connection with the mill there is war
80 house of 10000 bushels capacity, and |
~ elevator capacity of 700 or 800 bushels p
sll hour. The vocke's are prepared, at all time
to pay the highest cash price for all kinds
grain.