214 APPLICATION OF THE MACHINES. [Chap. 10.

These garners, and the gates leading both into and outof them, are numbered as the others.

If it be not convenient to fix the descending spoutsB C, to convey the wheat from the elevator to the gar-ners, and K A to convey it from the garners to the ele-vator again, then the conveyers rs and IK may be usedfor said purposes.

To keep the parcels separate, there should be a crane-spout to the meal elevator; or any other method may beadopted, by which the meal of the second parcel may beguided to fall on another part of the floor, until the firstparcel is all bolted, and the chests cleared out, when themeal of the second parcel may be guided into the hop-per-boy.

I must here observe, that in mills for grinding parcels,the tail flour must be hoisted by a separate elevator tothe hopper-boy, to be bolted over, and not run into theconveyer, as shown in Plate VIII; because then the par-cels could not be kept separate.

The advantages of the machinery, applied to a millfor grinding parcels, are very great.

1. Because without them there is much labour inmoving the different parcels from place to place; allwhich is here done by the machinery.

2. The meal, as it is ground, is cooled by the machi-nery, and bolted in so short a time, that, when the grind-ing is done, the bolting is, also, nearly finished. There-fore,

3. It saves room, because the meal need not be spreadover the floor to cool, during 12 hours, as is usual; andbut one parcel need be on the floor at one time.

4. It gives greater despatch, as the miller need neverstop either stones or bolts, in order to keep parcels se-parate. The screenings of each parcel may be cleaned,as directed in Art. 89, with very little trouble; and theflour may be nearly packed before the grinding isfinished; so that if a parcel of 60 bushels arrive at themill in the evening, the owner may wait till morning,when he may have it all finished; he may use the offal forfeed for his team, and proceed with his load to market.