All the workers from the lowest coolie to the overseers were clothed in spotless white, white aprons the women, white pants and jackets for the men and white hats for all.
It chanced that the reporter entered the cracker department on a day when "arrowroot" biscuits; were being baked and the process was most fascinating and at the same.time revealing. Everything worked with clocklike regularity, there was no hitch in proceedings from beginning to end and it can be said that once a bag of flour was poured into the mixer it never stopped moving until it went into 'a box for retail consumption at the other end of the process some fifteen minutes later.
First the flour for the "arrowroot" biscuits was poured into the mixer and the other ingredients added. The machine was then start~ ed and meanwhile q similar machine next to it was being emptied ci its Toad of ready mixed dough. The idea was that while one machine placed in operation the other was being emptied and the Toading crew of three men then took the empty machine over.
Once the dough was mixed, which was afl done in spotless machines. it was taken away to a cutting machine that was at once the simplest and most interesting machine it had been the reporter's privilege to see. It looked not un-ike a miniature printing press.
Here the dough was placed on 2 platform at one end, sprinkled with flour and thrust into the contre of two largo whirling rollers which brought it out on the other side in the required thickness for the type of biscuit being made.
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