Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-01-08
For the Herald and Tribune.
Something TO Think OF.

Let me tell a thousand or two of
your readers something. Our farmers
have been selling a good quality of
oats at from 20 to % cents per bushel.
Most of them who like something really
healthy and good to eat, have been
paying five cents per pound for pre-
pared flake oats. Six bushels of good
oats will yield one hundred pounds of
the prepared article and about seventy
five pounds of parched hulls and rich
dust, worth at least one cent a pound
for COW feed. The one hundred pounds
prepared article at five cents per pound
represents the oats at S3tc per bushel.
Suppose we state the prepared oats at
three cents per pound, then the oats
used would stand at fifty cents per
bushel. Now, if we allow the miller
one fourth for toll that would be a
good profit for him it would leave the
raw oats at 37t cents per bushel; and,
don't you forget it," the prepared
article at three cents per pound. In
other words, for a bushel of oats lat
the mill the farmer would get 12t
pounds of the prepared article, instead
of now, at the best, five pounds for
what he gets for his bushel of raw
grain.
Well, what do l mean? Just this:
Some one land if several, all the bet
ter of our about fifty water power
mills in Washington County ought to
put in an oat huller: and bear this in
mind, the same mill that bulls and
prepares oats, will hull and prepare
wheat, barley and,I presume, corn also.
What is the processY First the grain
is parched in a large circular iron pan
around-over the surface of which
%stirrers run. Then the grain, with its
bulls Drowned and brittle. are run
through the huller; which is a dressed
burr stone running vertically at a high
rate of speed 400 per minute) and the
grain is held, lightly, TO its face by a
perforated steel plate that revolves,
slowly, in the opposite direction. Next
it passes through I machine that sepa-
rates the hull dust, and the grains are
ready for use, whole, if you want it as
hominy; or, the miller subjects it to a
steam process to soften it, and passes
it through rollers and you have what
is called flake oats.
What does a hulling outfit cost?
There are two sizes now made. The
largest with a capacity of 5000 pounds
of the flakes per day at $4,000. The
second size with a capacity of 1900
pounds per day at $1,000, but a smaller
size with a capacity of, say, 1000
pounds per day at from 5000 to $500
will SOC be made.
Now, let us take an $500 mill. SUP.
pose we rate the prepared oats at three
cents per pound giving as above stated
O market value here at home, of 375
cents per bushel for raw oats; and
allow the miller one fourth for toll.
That would be, TO him, seventy five
cents per n hundred; or 81 so per
day or 50, 346 per year. Wouldn t that
be fully as good, or, a great deal bet
ter than many or any of our water
mills do grinding wheat and corn or
saving up logs2
1t occurred to me that it was about
time for our farmers to get more for
their oats. give less for the prepared
flakes. l obtained the address of two
manufacturers of hulling outfits and
with special inquiries obtained the
general facts above stated. l hope the
day is near by when we will all have
more and cheaper hominy. grits and
flakes, enabling us to be really happy
aud to grow fat. N. A. PATTERSON.
Vineland, Tenn, January 8, 1896.