The mirror., 1923-03-01
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growth started, and hanging to them as
beard. Therefore, l and my associates
felt somewhat proud of ourselves. We
were loaded next into freight car and
started on our voyage toward the great
milling centre. On the way there, but
before we arrived at our destination, men
entered our car, and, running long hollow
tubes down through US to the floor,
secured samples for exhibit in the ex-
change, where men barter for us. l did
not get into the sample lot, so can only
repeat what heard men say, but judg-
ing from their talk l thought that the
exchange must be a place where wild
men met and short chat with some ker-
rels who had made the trip there, con-
frmed my opinion.
On our arrival at the terminal we lay
around for several days in our freight
car home, until we were again moved
along to large building along wharf
overlooking beautiful harbor. Here the
car was run onto a mechanism that
weighed us; then by means of machinery
the car was tilted this way and that way
until we were all out of it. We slid
around and over one aonther in big
dark pit into an elevator that carried us
up to the top of this mammoth building
where we were deposited on wide rub
Der belt, that again carried US along until
we were thrown into another hopper and
fell again into another big dark bin. Her..
we remained for several weeks, until
Spring came with its balmy days and the
boats could move again. At last the day
came when we were again in motion an
sent pell nell into the hold of the boat
Our boat had the luck to escape stormy
weather, so we did not get wet and have
to be put through the drying machines
and suffer loss of quality. Instead, we
retained our grade and quality right from
the day we were threshed out of the
straw, and we were proud of it. On our
boats arrival at her port of unloading
the matches were opened and flexible steel
spouts, with wide mouths, were lowered
into our midst. BY means of very strong
suction we were drawn up out of the
vessel and deposited in bins in another
mammoth grain elevator, from which we
were loaded into freight car and landed
at a -four mill. By this time we had
accumulated quite bit of dust and dirt,
so that we did not appear as bright
colored as when we went to the farmers
granery. But our inherent goodness re
nained, and it was only necessary for the
miller to clean us up in his cleaning sys-
TEN to make us as good as ever.
After being unloaded and binned at
the MILL small sample of us was taker
to the mill laboratory and there given
various tests to ascertain certain points
in our constitution, such as the amount
and quality of gluten, protein, percentages
of -four bran, and other offals, and to as
certain also the amount of moisture we
held, as the laws allow only certain
amount.
On completion of the laboratory tests,
the miller began drawing US out of the
bin preparatory to milling us. First we
were sent to cleaner, where all the
sticks, strings, nails, stones, straw, and,
yes, even TOOLS were taken out of our
midst. Then we were dropped into a
scourer, machine with an indented CYL
inder case, and an internal barrel edged
with adjustable blades that govern the
degree of securing In this machine, re-
volving at very high speed we slipped
in and out of these indentations and
rubbed against one another so rapidly that
the outer coatings of our skin were worn
off and by means of the strong fan were
sucked away from the berries and with
them went the dust and dirt or at least
the most of it. What little remained was
taken away in the next machine we were