The Republican journal., 1908-06-11
E0IEYSKIDNEYCURE
Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right
HOW THE WORLD GETS ITS BREAD
Eighteen Square Miles of Wheat Days
Grinding at Washburn-Crosby Mills.

"Wbat is the most interesting question of
the century," asked President George
Emory Fellows of the University of Maine,
in a lecture on national progress.
"The bread question" promptly replied
man in the audience.
And while the reply probably referred to
the bread question as including the very
broad question of a struggle for livelihood,
nevertheless it has most interesting side
when taken literally.
flour with which the daily demand of the
rich and Door alike is Suppliedp And how
are all the impurities and indigestible parts
of the grain removed, and only the wonder
full pure white product retained, which the
grOcer's boy delivers to your door,
Many more readers can give more or less
definite answers to these questions today
than few years agO-due chiefly to the
great educational campaigns on the output
of the largest flour mills of the wOrld-th0se
of the Washburn-Crosby Co., OF Mime
apols, Mimi, manufacturers of Gold Medal
Flour.
Some indication of the vast industry
which the demand for the staff of life has
created is afforded in the figures of the
daily capacity of these big mills-35, 600
of grain may be used in this establishment
in one day-the product of $4,000 acres or
nearly 10 square miles. Last year over
100000 barrels of flour were shipped from
this plant alone.
From the start to finish, the flour making
in these mills employ more than thousand
men who are given steady employment at
high grade labor, the year around.
Many interesting facts are furnished III
the extent to which other industries are
drawn ON by these mills as, for instance,
the amount of wood used.
If all the wooden slaves used in their
flour barrels last year were laid end to end,
it would make continuous line OF slaves
approximately $500 miles long, or an air
line drawn from the British Isles across the
Atlantic Ocean, across the American Con-
tinent, across the Pacific Ocean to the PENN
sula of Kamachatka. Yet, only about one
sixth of the flour is put in wooden barrels,
the remainer being packed in jute and cot
ton bags.
The process of cleaning and milling the
wheat from which the -four is obtained, that
is not touched by hands until the bag is
opened in the purchasers home, is long and
varied. At the outset the chemist analyses
the samples of wheat and decides what shall
be bought. The grain is cleaned first by
aeration and sitting machinery, and then by
securing in rapidly whirllng cylinder:
After this it is furiously brushed until even
a microscope would fall to reveal any for
eign particle
Then begins the milling to separate the
Eve layers of the outer hull Of the grain
from the inner starch and gluten producing
calls.
1t may surprise many to know that flour
is not dust or pulyerized wheat. 1t really
consists of sharp granues of uniform size
composed of starch and gluten, all lmpuri-
ties having been removed.
The grain is crushed in series OF rollers,
and silk boiling cloth, costing as high as
81. 90 yard, is used to separate the flour
from its coats. 1t is made to pass through
this silken fabric This explains its velvety
tneness. The flour is then dropped through
chutes into the cloth bags, which when filled
are quickly seWed up.
The various streams of flour are CONSTANT
| ly under inspection by experts, and wet ana
| dry tests are made every few minutes The
| sample Of flour to be tested is smoothed on
board with sample which is standard.
| A portion is wet and baked in an electric
| oven, thus giving most valuable color test.
| The -four is kept absolutely uniform ana
distinctly superior in quality, day in and
| day out-year in and year out
| A large, beautiful illuminated view OF the
| largest flour mills in the world is on exhibit
| ton in the window of A. A. HoWes u Co.,
| Belfast.
| Tired mothers, worn out by the peevish,
| cross baby have found Cascasweet a boon
and blessing. Cascasweet is for babies
and children, and is especially good for the
| ills so common in hot weather. Look for
the ingredients printed on the bottle Con
tains no harmful drugs. Sold by H. ii.
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