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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Maple Leaf Mills Limited grew to be a prominent force in the production and distribution of flour-based products in Canada.
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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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The mill's top capacity was about 40 barrels of flour a day, each weighing 96 pounds.
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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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Other mills were also established at this time along Saratoga Creek - a paper mill near 6th Street and Big Basin Way which burned in 1883 and a flour mill located near the present day Hakone Gardens.
Cornmeal was the only grain that could be ground in the tub mills and so the waterwheel driven mills that could grind wheat into flour was a welcome addition to the cove.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Mills: Wheat flour corn meal / flour oat flour rye flour barley flour rice flour spelt flour.
Nearly 300 flour (grist) mills operated on county streams and limeburners were employed busily producing lime for soil dressing in southern Lancaster County and neighboring counties and states.
French burr stones produced the best quality flour and most mills which ground for export had a pair.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The oxen were hungry, food for the children became scarce and the flour mills were forty miles away in LaPorte County.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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Mills were scarce, forcing people to haul their grain a long way to be ground into meal or flour.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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It is true that most stone mills will do a finer job grinding flour than most metal burr mills, and most stone mills will outwear metal burrs.
The flour mills alone were no longer able to support all of them, so that from 1850-60 on they had to take up different trades: farmer, joiner, carpenter.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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Flour mills manufactured by Retsel Corporation have a unique warranty, inasmuch as we warranty parts and workmanship on our mill for ten (10) full years, plus Retsel mills are repaired at the factory which extends for the life of the original purchaser.
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