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Every good flouring mill should have a cooling loft, a loft or lofts 

 for storage, a grinding loft, a bolting loft, and a loft for packing, for 

 the purpose of a due regard to cleanliness, (without which no good 

 flour can be made,) and the convenience of moving the grain to the 

 best advantage, through the different processes. 



A flour mill is, therefore, a mammoth machine, whose machinery 

 extends through several stories of a building, performing its clock 

 like motion harmoniously, and with astonishing efficiency. 



At many of these establishments in our country, several hundred 

 barrels of flour are made and packed daily. A canal boat arriving 

 at Rochester from the west at 12 o'clock of one day, with 1,500 

 bushels of wheal, has been known to be set forward the next day, 

 havmg had in the intervening time, its cargo of wheat transferred 

 from the boat to the mill, there manufactured into flour, the same 

 weighed, packed, and delivered back to the boat, in that space of 

 time. 



Such Is the gigantic perfection of this great work, as left by the 

 hands of America's greatest mechanic. 



But the grand mill of Oliver Evans, has, in the process of im- 

 provements, thrown off in its flight, a host of satellites, in the shape 

 of portable mills for a variety of purposes adapted to the diversified 

 domestic wants of man, such as the horse power mill for secluded 

 farmers in any part of the country, and hand power mills for the 

 pioneer of the west; mills for grinding corn and cob for animals; for 

 paints, medicines, mustard, coffee, &,c. 



"Within the last thirty years, there has been invented and brought 

 into use, numerous other kindrea machines for the growth and pre- 

 paration of grain. 



The most important of these is the threshing machine; horses are 

 now made to do the labor which would require 100,000 men, if 

 done in the old way by the flail. Corn shellers, smut machines, fan- 

 ning mills, hay and straw cutters, vegetable cutters, machines for 

 hulling clover seed-, drilling machines, corn planters, machines for 

 sowing grain bioad cast, reaping machines, with more or less suc- 

 cess, and portable horse power machines, are among other machines 

 so brought out. Such, also, has been the improvement in the plow, 

 (originally a mere tool,) that it has assumed many of the attributes 



