A visitor to the mill is at once struck by the cleanliness and comparative quiet of the establishment. There is scarcely a trace of flour dust to be seen, and there seems to be a strange absence of operatives, but an inspection of the building and machinery under the guidance of the courteous Manager soon accounts for this. The fact becomes apparent that the machinery is automatic, and very little manual labour is required. On the first floor may be seen a native feeding the machine with the grain from sacks just as it arrives from the country, and on the ground floor may be seen another native workman disposing of sacks of flour which have been automatically filled to an exact weight by the machine, after the shoot has been fitted with an empty sack by a native woman. So that with the exception of the Engineer-in-Charge and an assistant engaged in oiling the machinery, the three natives above referred to are the only persons engaged in the process of making the flour. 'The grain, after being Between roller after roller,' during. the sed into the machine, is rapidly ground
woees of which it is carried from the tom to the top of the building several times in wooden shoots, and is cleaned, sifted and sorted during its rapid passage, shut up from observance and requiring no manual labour, Dirt and extraneous iatter is separated from the grain and disappears in ove direction, sharps and bran in others, and three qualities of flour in yet others, till it reaches the sacks, The mill is
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