Description: |
Illustrations and explanations of the steps of processing and bagging flour at the Akin-Erskine Milling Company. Image Access WideTEK 25 Akin-Erskine Milling Co. Dust and dirt Where 2500 barrels of flour are made each day. After wheat is clean in above and other similar machines it goes through an automatic sale. Dumped every time it weighs 5 bu. 10,600 bu. Go through each day. A floor of big machine - 4 big boxes to each and they are wiggled and jerked up and down and around Talk about a machine doing the Hoocha-a-ma-cooch there it is Sieves Cloth Causing flour to pass over 21 sieves that sift it then some back to rollers Cap off to see how it is. To room filled with roller mills where it is ground 32 double grinders in room. Then up to sifter floor Some elevator and most necessary going from one floor to another in 8 or 9 story buildings A maze of wooden spouts on each floor Head miller C.J. Brace examining and testing the flour. Spreads bit from each roller on paddle and compares with selling samples Filling sacks Little elevator Long row of the SE Adding a bit to make exact weight. Also make Top o the mill pancake flour - cake flour - roxane wheat cereal - self rising flour. Graham flour etc. on other big machines Various brands are made This machine sews the sacks from 2 pounds to 98 pounds |
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Origin: | 2013 |
Created By: |
Karl Kae Knecht |
Source: |
http://digital.evpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/karlknecht/id/944 |
Collection: |
Karl K. Knecht Collection |
Copyright: |
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Subjects: |
Education Company Sketches Labor Industry Evansville (Ind.) -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons Caricatures and cartoons -- United States |
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