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In ignorance of the functions and chief vakie of a mill, occasionally it 

 is claimed that the rolls run faster and the mill runs lighter than others. 

 Experienced manufacturers know that there is a certain proper speed rolls 

 should travel, and that they can only run fast and light in proportion to lack 

 of pressure, and consequent loss of juice they allow. 



Pressure means power, and can only be produced by the exertion of 

 power. Certainly a mill that presses out only the free juice, and lets a large 

 part of the crop go with the bagasse, will run light, lighter than one doing 

 honest work. 



It requires a high degree of mechanical skill, large experience, familiarity 

 with its practical working, and long continued tests, extending over years, to 

 perfect a cane mill. One of the greatest drawbacks in the cane industry has 

 been the introduction, periodically, by misrepresentations, at seemingly low 

 prices, of mills utterly unreliable and wasteful. 



MILLS FOR ANIMAL POWER. 



There are two styles of Animal Power Mills in common use; one having 

 vertical rolls, and the other having horizontal rolls. The vertical mill is un- 

 questionably the best for animal power, since it avoids the friction of an extra 

 gear, and a beveled one at that. The extra gearing required in horizontal 

 mills for horse power increases the weight and cost. On account of the extra 

 gearing, horizontal mills require more power than vertical mills, to do the 

 same work; that is, the same animals will press more cane with a vertical 

 mill than with a horizontal. 



Of the animal power mills the well-known "Victor" easily ranks first. 

 Along with other vertical mills it gets rid of beveled gear, and, in addition, 

 has valuable features possessed by no other mill. By means of lapped gearing 

 (which no other mill has the right to use), the return plate (variously called 

 choker, knife and guide,) is dispensed with, and all choking or obstruction 

 of cane avoided. The rolls are lifted from the bottom plate, and touch only 

 at the ends of the shafts, thus doing away with much of the friction common 

 to most mills. There is a perfect device for oiling the journals. It has a 

 good feed-box, flanges to the rolls, and other conveniences, such as channel 

 in bottom plate to receive the juice from the rolls and conduct it to the 

 spout, wipers to keep the faces of the rolls clean, screws for regulating 

 position of the rolls. The " Victor," in short, is the most complete and 

 desirable o"f the animal power mills, being superior in construction to all 

 others. 



The Great Western has been favorably known for many years. Next to 

 the Victor, it is the best horse power mill made in the country. Although 

 not quite so heavy as the Victor, it is a good, strong, well finished mill, and 

 gives the best of satisfaction to purchasers. 



