SUGAR AND SUGAR MAKING. 115 
will be sixteen inches, and then cuts znito the block 
another journal like the others, leaving beyond 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 it, 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 lever hole or socket, 
to prevent the strain, which will be considerable, from 
splitting the top. You have now the rollers complete ; 
the next step is to make the frame that holds them 
together. ‘l'ake 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. Putthe 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, getaslab of 
wood, six feet long, sixteen inches broad, and eight 
inches thick, set your two 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 
