The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-04-13

this is only an intermediate process
and as the visitor gets nearer to the
top of the building he finds the wheat
in preparation for the crusher and |
the grinder and the flour in the proc
ess of preparation for the ultimate
consumer Just before the wheat goes
| to the grinder it lies for at least II
hours in one of the five big store bins,
with a capacity of 500 bushels, after
passing through the cleaners, in which
the blending is done. On the second
floor are located the screening and
securing machinery. The wheat,
which looks clean in the wagon, is a
Pharisee, differing only from members
of that hypocritical sect in the fact
that it keeps its dirt on the outside
and deftly hides it from the casual OBJ
server by its very modesty of de-
/ meanor. Mr.. Holland drives his hand
t into one of the machines and draws
out a handful of the refuse dust, and
2 you change your opinion about the ma
} tive cleanliness of the cereal and get
the idea that it must be Russian va
t riety that got it's habits from the pro-
verbal Muscovite peasants. Here is
the place where Mr. Holland says the
average investigator of the domestic
|
!. Well, this is the dry securing place.
!. 1t gets another cleaning later, but that
! is another story.
4 Then we are introduced to the cleo
! trical bleachers, which are the pref
: test things in the whole establishment,
! though they look dangerous for all
J. their brilliancy. They are the latest
Z. of their kind and have been in place
only three weeks. Ordinary air is
taken up and cleaned through a screen,
after which it is introduced to the
flashing electrical flame, which burns
out the oxygen. 1t is pumped into
mixing machine, where it is run
through the flour and turns it white,
This is only done at the request OF the
purchaser and every sack of bleached
flour is so branded The same sort OF
/ flour that is used in the unbleached is
\ used in the bleached And next come
| the mixometers. No, not Mick OMeteT
] it is not an exclusively Hibernian
institution, however suspicious the
name of the Miller may sound. The
mixometers, the things that mix up the
flour and salt and phosphate and soda
so that the user doesn't have to apply
a anything but water to prepare for use
!. This brand is called "Twinide." ISM
+ sold here? No, there is no demand fol
Z it, Neither is there for bleached flour
:. nor for flour made exclusively IRON
+ soft wheat. All these are made fol
Z the people of Dixie, whose tastes are
+ different from those of the Northland
/ There is little wheat bread used il
Z the south, so that the demand fol
/ hard wheat or blended flour does no
+ exist to any great extent there OF
< the other hand, biscuits and pastry are
+ much more commonly used there fol
3 these and the white bleached flour II
+ the best Where large quantities arr
+ used the demand is for the sort tina
3 is already prepared. The United
+ States government forbids the use o
+ acids in bleaching, and the process
: used by the Twin Fall& mill involves
I only plenty of fresh air. The differ
Z ence between the whitest unbleache'
! flour and the same product after belni
I treated with the electrified air is strik
Z ing and almost unbelievable.
! On the third floor there is cleane
I for the wheat which has already beel
! secured, and this takes off the cuticle
! as it were, by peeling off the fine bran
= You see, we are describing doubl
Z process as we go from floor to floor
+ to avoid two round trips. one tell
Z of the preparation of the wheat TO
+ the grinder and the other tells of tn
+ preparation of the ground flour TO
Z the user On the same floor that Tn
+ wheat gets its hide taken off there ar
I five big boilers shaking like victims c
Z old-time chills, each containing
+ dozen sleeves that differentiate tn
t different grades of things, maxim
Z flour, white shorts, brown shorts an
+ bran. All these but the first are late
k.4 mixed with % nar cent lOW-grad