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which will be sixteen inches, and then cuts into the block another 

 journal like the others, leaving:; bej'ond it eighteen inches of sound 

 wood to spare of the same girth or diameter as the roller part. — 

 Through this eighteen inches that you have left over, cut a square 

 hole or socket, large enough to put a good stiff wooden lever in or 

 through if, so that when your rollers are set up on end in a frame, 

 like a windlass, you can walk round with the lever, and so turn the 

 mill. If there is a blacksmith in the neighborhood, it would be well 

 to get him to put an iron hoop above and below the lover hole or 

 socket, to prevent the strain, which will be considerable, from split- 

 ting the top. You have now the rollers complete ; the next step is 

 to make the frame that holds them together. Take two pieces of 

 timber, nine feet long and nine inches square, if you have them ; if 

 not, round barked timber will do ; dig two holes in the ground six 

 feet deep and four feet apart wherever you wish your mill to stand. 

 Put the posts into them, and fill the earth in again, beating it down 

 so as to hold these uprights as stiff and immovable as possible. — 

 These are the supports of your mill, and have to bear all the strain, 

 so you must see that they are strong and firm. Now, get a slab of 

 wood, six feet long, sixteen inches broad, and eight inches thick, set 

 your too rollers on it, standing upright, and close together ; mark 

 the two holes for the lower journals, and cut them out six inches 

 deep. You must now cut a couple of notches at the ends of the 

 slab; fit these notches between the two posts, and pin them tight. — 

 Now you have the bed plate of your mill. Set the rollers upright 

 on it, with the journals in the holes you have out for them, and pro- 

 ceed to fit the upper frame plate in the same way. except that it 

 must be made in two halves, owing to the socket part where the lever 

 goes preventing your slipping it over both journals, as was done in 

 the other case. For the upper frame plate, taking two pieces, six 

 feet long, nine inches broad, and seven inches thick, fit them nicely 

 together round the journals, and fix as before. To keep the two 

 pieces from spreading when the strain comes, cither clamp them to- 

 gether with wooden clamps and wedges, or hold them together with 

 a dovetail tie. The mill is now complete ; put in the lever, and 

 you are ready to crush the canes. Cut a small gutter round the 

 roller in the wood of the bed plate, leading to a spout, to prevent 

 the juice from running all round and being lost. The above need 

 not cost a farmer ten dollars where wood is plenty, is suflSiciently 

 strong, and will crush a hundred gallons of juice per day, if re- 

 quired. 



