passes through the 9 goes at once to the stones without purifying, while
that which passes over the tail is sent to the fine middlings purifiers.

After the purification, the middlings are ground on stones and bolted
on Nos. 13 and 14 cloth, after having been scalped on No 8. The germ
middlings are crushed on smooth rolls and bolted on Nos. 12 and 13. What
is not crushed fine enough goes with poor tailings to the second germ
rolls, and from these to a reel by themselves or to the fifth reduction
or bran reel. A mill of this kind could be made much more perfect by an
expenditure of two or three thousands dollars more. I have instanced it
to show what can be done with gradual reduction in a very small way.

In mills of from three hundred to five hundred barrels capacity and
still larger, the programme differs considerably from that I have
sketched, the middlings being graded and handled with little, if any,
returning, and are sized down on the smooth rolls, a much larger
percentage of the work of flouring being done on millstones. For a three
hundred barrel roller mill, the following plant is requisite: five
double corrugated roller mills, five double smooth roller mills, three
pairs of four foot burrs sixteen purifiers, four wire scalping reels,
six feet long, one reel for the fifth break, one reel for low grade
flour, eight chop reels, seven reels for flour from smooth rolls, three
reels for the stone flour, two grading reels, three flour packers, and
necessary cleaning machinery. The reels are eighteen feet thirty-two
inches. The programme is necessarily more complicated.

When it comes to the machinery to be employed in making the reductions
or breaks, the miller has several styles from which to choose. Which is
best comes under the head of what I don't know, and moreover, of that
which I have found no one else who does know. Each machine has its good