Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-04-27
What We Do Al School.
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EDIToRs;-CAvANAGH AND BROWN.

The editors wish to say good bye to
the readers of the school column as
this is their last week. They will be
succeeded by Pearce and Freeman.
Our visitors this week have been too
numerous TO mention.
FIGURING MILL.
There are two Touring mills in Yale,
but the older one, owned by w. H.
Palmer, has not been running, that is
constantly, for several years, so chose
Welch's to write about.
The Centre Star Roller Mills, on the
east side of Kennefic street at its juno
ton with the +. & p. NJ. Railroad, were
built in 1887 by S. o. Welch q Son ut
cost of about $4,000. On the west
side of the building is the drive where
grain is unloaded; on the south, an
other drive where flour is sold out. On
the east are the planning and single
mills, the lumber yards, and the brick
engine house, in which is an engine
of sixty-five horse power. On the
north, and facing the railroad. is the
elevator, where in twenty-four long
bins grain is stored away until it can
be ground.
The main building is forty feet long,
also forty feet wide. 1t has three floors
and basement. The basement is
eight feet high; the ground floor,
twelve feet; the second floor, sixteen
feet; and the third floor, to the peak
of the roof, twenty feet, making in all
heighth Of fifty six feet.
Now, if we 60 down in the basement
we will see the shafting; these shafts
are connected to the engine where the
power is obtained. and from each run
heavy belts and endless chains which
drive the machinery on the upper
floors. On the first floor are one
Stevens Roll and four double stand
Case Rolls, for grinding the flour; one
feed roll for making chop and one old
fashioned Bar stone such as were used
before the roller process came around.
In it buckwheat flour and corn meal
are ground. There were three of
them, but the others have been taken
away to give place to better machinery.
There are also eighteen sets of box
elevators to carry the flour from one
machine or floor to another. If one
will but look in these, he may see the
flour in each and every state and know
just how the flour is changed in each
machine. On the next floor stands
four cleaning machines and gamers
and twelve boiling reels, where the
coarse parts are removed by being
sifted through silk. On the last floor,
we see four Scalping Reels two Puri-
tiers and one Dust Collector.
Farmers from all around, some from
even as far away as Lexington and
Boards Mills, bring their grain here to
be ground. Great improvements have
been made during the last few years
in the line of milling making it now a
long, complex process.
After the wheat is weighed, it is
cleaned by the Monitor and sent to the
store bins. When its turn comes to be
ground it Is taken from these and sent
to the Huskler Separator and Securing
machines where the light and worth
less kernels are thrown out.
II is then crushed in the Stevens
roll. The product is sent to the Scalp
ing machine where the first break flour
Is taken Oft, and sent to the boiling
reel. The coarse part goes to the
second break roll where it is reduced,
and sent to second scalper, where
second break flour is taken off. Then
1t is removed to second boiling reel,
and, from there to third case roll.
After being reduced again it is sent to
the third scalper. The tailings from
this scalper are sent to the bran roll
and reel, where all Sf the flour Is taken
out, the remainder of the bran is sent
to the bran bins. The tailings from
the first break reel is cent TO the Coarse
Purifier, then to the Aspirator
where the coarse and fine parts are
The first is reduced in the
Germ Purifier; the second, in the
Coarse Midhngs Roll. Both are then
sent to resls. The tailiDgs from these,
after being purified in the Fine Midi
ings Case Purifiers, go to- the Midlings
roll and reel. What is left is known
as MidlingA The tailings from these
reels, afterthe flour, Known as low
grade, is taken out, are called shorts.
You will understand that whenever
any of these products GO through a
reel, all the flour that can then be
taken out, " taken out. The flour
from all of ale reels is rut together
and sent to the Flour Dresser, then TO
bins over packers, where it is sacked
ready for use.
In this way about eighty barrels of
flour are made daily. The mill runs
the year around and in the balsy season,
the fall, they are obliged to work
nights in order to meet the demands.
So, in the course of year 70 great deal
of flour is made. Some of it is sent to
Cass City, and Sapdusky, but the great
er part finds ready home market.
The best flour the Silver Spray, sells
by the wholesale at $3.50 per barrel;
the second grade, Honest Toll, at $3.50
per barrel.
Mr.. WEIGH has planning mill con-
nected with the Touring mid, and run
by the same power. Planning, mould
ing, and resawing are done here.
There is always on hand supply of
good lumber of all kinds, and prices;
flooring, lath, shingles,
mouldings, IN fact, everything neces-
sary to build a house.
Four men, head miller, second mill
er, engineer, ana Waterman, are en-
ployed the year around. In the busy
season more men are kept until the
'rush Is Oyer" Mr.. Curvin, the en-
gineer, has been in the mill ever since
it was built. Mr.. c. Tunis has been
head miller for over five years. Two
thousand dollars are paid out annually
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