, 1886-12-11
THE MODERN ROLLER" MILL.


The Old Bnhr Stones and Gathering
Hoppers Too SLOW for This Age.
"But inside the mill all is changed
nowadays. The old buhr stones and
their Gathering hoppers are too slow for
this rapid age. The mill must do some
thing more than grind the neighborhood
grist and store seed wheat to survive in
the midst of wide-awake competitors
"Iiow do they manage in these days.
The roller mills are the latest i'm
provement, and they are wonderful. In
point of production and economy they
distance the old system. The old style
water-wheel mills might as well under
take to grind with the water that is
past as to endeavor to compete with
Them
where are the new mills usually To-
cated?7
THE desideration is a four or five
story building contiguous to the rail-
roads or waterways. In one corner
they put n good, strong engine and the
improved machinery, with thousands of
feet of spouting connecting the storage
bin with the rolls and reels, and go to
work.
"The old-time farmers wagon is still
essential to the arrival of the wheat"
indispensable. But after hat all is
changed. After the wheat is weighed
and elevated to the storage bin it goes
through what is called the store-house
machine, where it is cleaned from cheat
and foreign heavy stuff. Then it is
sent through smut-machines and again
cleaned, thence through an automatic
weigher and register TO the mills as
they are called"
How are these mills constructed
Each with n double set of steel rollers,
set side by side, between which the
wheat is poured and crushed. These
rolls are graded as to the sizes the
first being very course, the last very
fine"
Through how many of these mills
must the wheat pass until it is finally
reducedy'
Usually ten different mills or rolls.
After passing through each set of rolls
the stock passes up through spouts to
the 'scalper,' where it is separated, the
the fine flour from the coarse stock, the
flour passing from the scalper to the
reels, or short bolts, where it is sepa-
rated from the middlings, the coarser
stock again passing back through other
rolls for still further reduction"
what are these reels?"
"They are short bolts, differing from
the o~ld-fashioned hour-bolts, which
used to be %thirty-foot cylinders, out of
which the first flour that passed was the
best
what becomes Of the lust in the new
mills:"
at is carried by fans into a room called
a cyclone, from whence it is carted to
the dumps. The refuge from the ilour
and middlings is also confined to another
cyclone room, and is sold for animal
food"
"Ihen the new process is the more
economical and safest?7
Most assuredly. The waste from the
wheat is limited to the minimum. That,
and the cheapness in the cost of con-
structing the new over the old mills,
makes the production of flour much less
expensive, which of course inures TO the
benefit of the general public in reduced
prices"
"rhe process is heightened worry much
is it not?'
"Oh, yesl Formerly it went through
two sets Of buhrs, then through the
bolter and then became marketable.
Now he process is heightened to ten
reductions and n corresponding number
OF scalpings and boiling before we OBJ
tain the finished product. Cincinnati
Enquirer Interview.