868 THE FARMER'S AND 



Mill. To construct this was a matter of much more 

 difficulty. Some drawings and descriptions are given by 

 Mr. Ellsworth, but little more could be known from them 

 than that there must be three rollers, so placed and put 

 in motion, that the stalks in passing between them should 

 receive two crushings. 



To plan and construct a mill, with the proper dimen- 

 sions and with the strength required, so that the work of 

 crushing the stalks should be performed with certainty 

 and dispatch, was no easy task. I flatter myself, that I 

 have in this been tolerably successful. The rollers and 

 iron-work, patterns, etc., for my mill, were made by A. 

 J. Langworthy, of Rochester, at a cost of sixty-five dol- 

 lars. The whole weight of iron is about nine hundred 

 pounds. 



About one-half of the expense of the mill is in the horse, 

 power. The iron rollers being placed horizontal, it was 

 necessary to have a horse-power wheel and gearing, in 

 order to give them motion. If the more simple, and it 

 would seem at first view, less expensive forms, given 

 in Mr. Ellsworth's report, had been adopted, placing the 

 rollers perpendicular, the horse passing round them, the 

 rollers must have been of large diameter in order to take 

 through the length of a corn-stalk at one revolution of the 

 horse. These large rollers, when made of iron, would 

 have been very expensive, and probably not work as fast 

 as the small ones I use, giving them a quicker motion by 

 gearing. In my mill the circumference of the rollers has 

 such a proportion to their motion, that the velocity is equal 

 to about one-sixth the velocity of the horse ; or, in. other 

 words, a corn-stalk six feet long, will pass through between 

 the rollers in the same time that the horse will walk thir- 

 ty-six feet. The grinding is a beautiful operation ; the 

 amount of juice contained in the stalk is surprising to ev- 

 ery one. The stalks, in passing through the mill, are 



