IMPORTANT INVENTION. 



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of destruction. The grain wheu cooled is 

 ground. The steam condensed, while cool- 

 ing and remaining in the grain, is sufficient 

 to create fennentation in the meal in a short 

 time, if exposed to a warm climate. 



Flour and meal bemg broken into small 

 particles, theii" contact with a surface under 

 a low degree of heat, rapidly expels the 

 moistiu-e from each particle if kept in con- 

 stant motion. If, then, each particle is brought 

 into contact with a not highly heated surface, 

 and the ventilation being perfect, the process 

 must be a perfect one. To farther impress 

 the necessity of free ventilation, the Patentee 

 states that the quantity of water contained hi 

 winter-gi'ound tlour, manufactured at the best 

 mills in the North and Western States, varies 

 from 11 to 20 lbs. per Ijaixel ; summer-ground 

 contains from 10 to 14 lbs. Absolute diy- 

 ness is not required to prevent flour from 

 souring if retained in the northern climates 

 of the United States, but enough moistiire 

 should be expelled to prevent fermentation. 



Indian corn in the spring that will malce 

 196 lbs. of meal contains from 30 to 35 lbs. 

 of water ; as the season advances the quan- 

 tity of water lessens. These facts sufficiently 

 prove the necessity of drying grain and bread- 

 stuflTs artificially by a uniform heat, and hav- 

 ing a perfect ventilation for the almost in- 

 credible amount of moisture which is expelled 

 during the process of di-yiug. Thus prepai-ed, 

 flour and meal can never spoil without being 

 subjected to influences not usual in the 

 storage of such articles. All grain that is 

 heated and not musty may be restored to its 

 original soundness. As soon as com can be 

 shelled it may be dried so as to be merchant- 

 able ; this frequeudy occurs in the latter part 

 of October, if the season has been diy ; thus 

 new corn may be brought upon the market 

 in competition with the old if the price will 

 warrant. 



Cob meal (wliich is the com and cob 

 ground together) must become an article of 

 large export from the United States. As an 

 article of nutritious animal food it stands unri- 

 valed ; the cob contains nutriment until the 

 grain is perfected, which does not occur imtil 

 full six months after it is lipened (so tenned.) 

 The nutrition does not wholly consist in the 

 saccharine left in the cob, but consists ui its 

 use in distenduig the stomach and intestines 

 of the animal that perfect digestion of the 

 meal may take place, while the effects of feed- 

 ing the meal alone are that it sours on the 

 stomach and produces a scouring effect. An- 

 imals differ from man in requiring their food 

 prepared without deterioration from the 

 natural flavor ; hence cob meal can only be 

 prepared with certainty by the process of 

 steam heat and perfect ventilation. 



Many persons are of the opinion that the 

 experiment of sending corn and corn meal to 

 Great Britain has been tested and filled. 

 They only look upon the surface of things. 

 The question arises, when bread-stuffs assume 

 their usual level, At what rale can corn and 



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cob meal be placed in British ports 1 For 

 surely if they can obtam it low enough they 

 can use it. Corn can usually be obtained on 

 the ^Vestern rivers at from 15 cents to 20 

 cents per bushel; say A^ bushels per bbl., at 

 20 cents, is 85 cents — barrel 30 cents (tierces 

 would cost less) ; freight to New-Orleans per 

 bbl. 30 cents ; charges at New-Orleans 10 

 cents ; freight to Great Britain 60 cents ; mill- 

 ing and diyuig 10 cents — is $2 25 net cost. 

 Has com meal (a good article) ever reached 

 that figiue in any of our own mai'kets on the 

 seaboard ? The cost of cob nieal would be 

 considerably less — call it one cent per pound, 

 delivered hi Liverpool or London — -just half 

 the price of hay in those cities, and one-tliird 

 of the price of oil-cake, of which the British 

 take all our surplus. 



^Vith us it must come into universal use 

 when it can be obtained. 



The consumption of com meal in our owa 

 cities and towns would be more than double 

 could the people obtain it in a state that it 

 would keep and still preserve all the fresh- 

 ness and flavor of a recently ground article. 



Why is it that the cotton-gin is an essential 

 to the South ? Because with it only can they 

 prepare their cotton for a market. Why, 

 then, are not these Drj'ers, or some other ef- 

 ficient mode that will preserve our bread- 

 stuff's without change of quality, color or 

 flavor, equally essential to the North and the 

 great valleys of the West, which are and ever 

 will be only producing States ? 



If Europe encourages the use of Northern 

 and Western products, how dissimilar will 

 our interests be from that of our Southern 

 brethren ? 



The advantages claimed by the Patentee 

 for the Rotary and Statiouaiy Dryers over all 

 others, are — 



1st. That they diy all substances vinthout the 

 possibility of change of quality, color or flavor. 



2d. They occupy less space, cost less 

 money, take less fuel, and do more work 

 than any other Dryers. 



3d. The only attention required is to keep 

 up steam sufficient to blow off at the valve 

 weighed at any desu'ed pressure. 



4th. The motion of tlie Rotary Dryer, the 

 feed of both Dryers, and the heat being uni- 

 form, with suflicient capacity of Dryer, a 

 given amount of grain or other substances 

 must be dried, without destroying their vi- 

 tality'. 



5 th. That the principles involved and pat- 

 ented in these Dryers preclude the possibility 

 of substituting any other efficient mode of at- 

 taining the desired end. 



The Patentee is fully aware of the import- 

 ance of his invention. Yet he knows that but 

 a moiety of the benefits arising from its sale 

 or use, can recur to him ; he therefore otfers 

 to the public either to supply machines, or 

 to sell tenitory in portions desired. 



Letters post-paid, addressed to J. R. Staf- 

 ford, Cleveland, Ohio, will meet due attention. 



Cleveland, September, 1847. 



