this reel are mostly bran with some middlings adhering, and go to the
fifth machine, which cleans the bran. From this break the material
passes to a reel covered with bolting cloth varying in fineness from No.
10 at the head to No. 00 at the tail. What goes over the tail of this
reel is sent to the bran bin, and that which goes through next to the
tail of the reel, goes to the shorts bin. The middlings from this reel
go to a middlings purifier, which I will call No. 1, or bran middlings
purifier. The flour which comes from this reel is sent to the chop reel
covered at the head with say No. 9, with about No. 5 in the middle and
No 0 at the tail. You will remember that after each reduction the flour
and middlings were taken out by the scalping reels. This chop, as it is
now called, also goes to the same reel I have just mentioned. The
coarse middlings which go over the tail of this reel go to a middlings
purifier, which I will designate as No. 2. These go through the No. 0
cloth at the tail of the reel purifier No. 3; those which go through No.
5 cloth got to purifier No. 4; while all that goes through the No. 9
cloth at the head of the reel is dropped to a second reel clothed with
Nos. 13 to 15 cloth with two feet of No. 10 at the tail. The flour from
this reel goes to the baker's flour packer; that which drops through the
No. 10 is sent to the middlings stone, while that which goes over the
tail of the reel goes to purifier No. 4. We have now disposed of all the
immediate products of the first five breaks, tracing them successively
to the bran and shorts bins, to the baker's flour packer and to the
middlings purifiers, a very small portion going to the middlings stone
without going through the purifiers.

The middlings are handled as follows in the purifiers. From the No. 1
machine, which takes the middlings from the fifth break, the tailings go
to the shorts bin, the middlings which are sufficiently well purified go
to the middlings stone, while those from near the tail of the machine