The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-18
REVOLUTIONIzES
MILLING METHODS
DISCOVERY CAUSES GENUINE SEM
sATIoN AMONG MILLERs.
Process Of Dry Cleaning Wheat Is Pro
nounced the Greatest Improvement in
Milling Methods Brought Out Since
the Roller Process Was introduced
Invented at Sleepy Eye.

A process Of dry cleaning wheat has
Just been perfected by the head miller
of the Sleepy Eye Milling company of
Sleepy Eye, Minn., which has every
promise Of working a revolution in the
treatment of wheat in -four mills all
over the world. Well informed millers
say it viii probably prove the greatest
Improvement in milling methods
brought out since the roller process was
introduced. It will cause a genuine
revolution and sensation among millers.
Not only has the dry process been in
continuous, practical and successful use
for several months at the Sleepy Eye
plant, but other mills in Minnesota and
one in Canada have adopted, tested and
accepted it.
A few weeks ago the Pillsbury- Wash.
burn Flour Mills company Of Minneapo.
lis purchased the process for the A mill
the system will be Immediately ex.
tended to the other Pillsbury plants.
The Washburn- Crosby company and the
Northwestern Consolidated Milling COM
pany adopted the process this week.
Three of the millers in Minneapolis,
representing the three largest concerns,
after investigationg the method and
purchasing the right to use it in their
own mills, have shown their confidence
1.-THE undertaking by becoming stock
holders in, the Sleepy Eye Dry Process
company, which has been organized to
4 manufacture the machinery and pro-
mote the use of the process among mills
It has been capitalized for $500, 900. Pat
wheat-producing. country in the world
and have already been secured in the
United States.
i " Solved the Problem.
! Regarding the new process, the North
/ western Miller says:
| a"After practical test extending owe,
several months on inc Of the foremos
mills Of Minnesota, the inventor and hi
associates, all practical and eminentl,
| common sense millers, believe that the,
| have solved the problem and are nov
in possession Of a simple, efficient AM
entirely satisfactory process Of treatin|
wheat which does away entirely witt
washing machinery and substitutes
method which, both from the standpoin
Of economy and increased efficiency, i
a radical Improvement in this portion O
the four-making business.
"Like many other discoveries, thi
came about thru necessity, 'the mothe
Of invention The Sleepy Eye Millin
company Of Sleepy Eye, MINI, was re
ceiving large quantities of smut
wheat. To handle it properly, washin
machines were required, but there is n
water to be obtained at Sleepy Eye i
quantities necessary to operate wash
, ing machines.
i UThe president Of the company, A
G.. Won Hagen, with his customary e1
ergy, set about to supply the need b
!, sinking an artesian well. !. Contracts as
gregating? $4,000 for washing machine
: We're made by him contingent upon oil
tanning supply Of water sufficient t
!. operate them.
Made a Discovery.
. These contracts are now void; tt
: necessity for the machines no longer e,
: lists for, while the we'll was being bore,
$ the demands for some method to tres
the wheat became urgent: In tn
made discovery which promised
.. supply the need.
NHe developed and experimental an
: at last hit upon a solution Of the pro-
lem which he finally worked out to
satisfactory conclusion. The compa1
fastened to put the invention to pra
t tical commercial test and for fly
q months the Sleepy Eye Milling compar
r has been grinding wheat, puri6e
q cleansed and sterilized by an absolute
new process, using no water whatev
and for this length Of time the mill
u Sleepy Eye has had a monopoly Of VIII
a appears to be one Of the greatest i
d ventions ever known to the millil
"a trade"
) The Sleepy Eye Dry Process compar
o is purely nillers' company and It
intended to give the benefits of its or
4 cess, as far as possible, to millers alon
$ W. R. Reid Of Sleepy Eye, the invent
n OF the dry process, is president; Geor,
W. Somerville, treasurer, and, A. G. v,
:. Hagen, secretary and MANAGING diractf