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Show FROM WI-tEAT TO FLOUn Flour w .. made from whur in I IcuKlb y anll lirot' · con,"ullIing proccu. The Kuin entered the mill hy tht' hOld door on .he: fillil dlhcr 10 buy Ihc luch %Ii "I will In olher word., for . grinding. 10 f(/)5~i"'g ~ anastOTage duor, and the Miller made: an a.:rnOlCIII ,rain outri.:ht or (0 lIIake ~ auel of 'ralit', Krind Y<Jttr whut for onc ·t'ighlh lUll ." he wantt'd '0 much wheal in (,IIITh;UI~C Aflcr Ihe Millu had ukrn bis loll, the grain wali pl.l ccJ O\'('t Ihe French Uuhr SIOllt ; (dd • in the wheat hOI'PCf • et ) . To Letter undc-utand whal would cake place nUl, examine the d ia&,ullI 10 Ihe ri,h •. Watt'f ('nfered .hc mill Ihrough a dume box, Ilining Ihe Wiler wheel ~1ii:1\l1)' abo ve Ihe middle (luinl. The: wheel lurned in ill cu unter · clockwillc lIIotion, rdus intt the wain I. tbe bollum o( Ihe wlltel . The walC'( whed wu cUllurelcd lu the rna!>lC'r !iCtar (I,oullied in the "car ,lil ou lhe main HooI) by the lun.:. wuoden m.in .hafl. The nUder lur, like the \...·alcr whed , turned in a (,ountrr·clod.wise nun·eUltlll. ~ ~ ::;:::C.ijij/ -6 Ri!Jlit stmcs- Cpm meat j"iftst,,,s-f",,,r \ c _"c,(f [~~Za:1:;:. ~~m~~~~ .veft ·IWU £JJ -. Power for the IWO ~elll of milbrunu wa, dui vt'd fr olll Ihe ", iulu i;:ear. On either .ide of the IUjl l\ler \\'a " a I.. tun J _ 0 sfutjt 13pttom stone ~+n-f;1htnru ~~~""""£E:I _ gear, whi"'h rouled on _ lih;th perpendicular III Ihe main ~hah . The lalern .:;car thuill turlltd the power gC':.u 1000:alell on the .... lIe .'uft. ,\r the lUll of the powu ~ t' .. r \'/;I S a »lIIall KCoer nllt'll tlaC' huh ~tar . Ie wa. allad"',1 In thr lIIain dri ve »hah. 4--1/,,6gear The drive . h a h tllle:red Ihe millstones frolU Ihe IUl IIOIIi and \'W iU h.'enClI ~tcurdy in Ihe IUp llilone It)· II,,: rrnd . The bUllom ,tone was sUlioniH), a lul, tlH'rriu rt' , Iht' lOp 51unc was Ihe onl)' oue Ihal huntd . ShUlc Siuing in Ihe c.uin..: of the . Ionell wali Ihe ~rain hOIlPc:t. Grain efUered the stunes al a coni rolled "peed Iliailluillt'd 1.y Ihe lihoe, pa ssi ng through the eye iOlo Ihe lIlton(s . Tht' .. tune~ lurntd .Iuwly 1110 that Ihe flour was nol lmrned . As they turonJ 1 .he teround meal worked illi way out inlo Ih e ciuin" and down a lihoot iOio a conlainer 011 Ihe: t-::r oll lHI flour . Thu) far .he arai .. had tnvded from ahe hUllllC'f 10 cll t' "f.IHtT( _ --.......---... "W'"R-ter~ "Iuntll and then to the meal bin. Flour wali Ihe unl llilep. Up frurn ahe lIIt'al bin vi;t CU ll · vr)'on (0 Ihr ICl'o n,1 fluor \Yent the shorh, Ihe llIiddlill~l\ , ind Ihe hun for ahr final "p ro<cu of fl o.:gillg. Flo~~ill~ was .. Iype of . ifdn~ dune wilh a ry lindcr ·s h31,C'd lle\·icC' covered with a line woven clolh. Gruund meal t"lIltrrd Iht Rogger, which wcOi aro und and around liep;Halin~ .he middling and bran and allowing the sifled ftour 10 fall w the bollom of Ihe flo..::~cr inlo the wurm Ie'.r. Tht' ",orlll ~tilr worked .ht lii fted Huur oul 10 • ('oon:)'Our Ih al allowed it 10 fall 10 .he fiul floor for packill~. .,Ml'lSter ge~r / ~ , ~ .. -tainff :Breast l11Jee(~""" Courtesy of, and used with permission of Commonwealth of Virginia, Division of Parks. I-' ex> '-J |
