. The century illustrated monthly magazine . es, from side to side, from THE FLOUR-MILLS OF MLNNEAPOLIS. 43 floor to floor, from machine to machine, no-where needing the help of human hands,makes it seem like one vast living comparison with the circulation of the bloodin a vital frame readily comes to mind. Fromthe time the grain comes into the mill in carsto the packing up of the fine flour in barrels,through all the processes of sifting, cleaning,grinding, purifying,separating,etc.,everythingis automatic. No workman touches the prod-uct save in the way of supervision. Indeed, the
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . es, from side to side, from THE FLOUR-MILLS OF MLNNEAPOLIS. 43 floor to floor, from machine to machine, no-where needing the help of human hands,makes it seem like one vast living comparison with the circulation of the bloodin a vital frame readily comes to mind. Fromthe time the grain comes into the mill in carsto the packing up of the fine flour in barrels,through all the processes of sifting, cleaning,grinding, purifying,separating,etc.,everythingis automatic. No workman touches the prod-uct save in the way of supervision. Indeed, the night. There is no racket or clatter amidthese serried rows of apparatus. The wholegreat building hums and pulsates with adull, buzzing noise, but no particular pieceof enginery seems to give out a special the sounds of a great city mingle in a sub-dued roar, so do the thousand voices of themill unite to produce a single continuouseffect upon the ear. Let us follow the wheat in its journeysthrough the mill. Descriptions of machinery. laborers stand related to the machines aboutas the policemen do to the moving crowd inBroadway. They see that order is preservedand the movement is not clogged. The wideapartments of the mill, crowded with machinesranged in regular lines, seem deserted as thevisitor roams through them. Perhaps in adistant corner a man may be perceived, slowlymoving about, looking phantom-like in hiswhite garments, seen through a mist of flour-dust. He is an assistant miller, who perhapshas a hundred roller mills in his charge,all briskly grinding away from morning to are dull reading at best, and we may agree atthe start to look at the various processes onlylong enough to get a reasonably clear notionof their nature and effects. Our descriptionapplies to the Washburn A Mill. The wheatis first received in a hopper holding eighthundred bushels, for weighing; then it goesinto a bin and is elevated by buckets on end-less bands to another bin in the fifth story.
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