ABSTRACT
For many centuries the greatest changes in the milling industry were made in the motor power rather than in the grinding process itself. All millers who have succeeded the first pioneer have made use of various forms of apparatus to make the grinding process easier and more effective. The “Saddle” Stone is type of primitive milling devices. The earliest mills in the United States were operated by horse power, and the toll was higher than at those where water or wind power was used. In the United States, the principles of the gradual reduction process were taken from Hungarian millwrights, and rolls were first used in 1878. The hard quality of spring wheat and the increasing number of “breaks,” or stages in the milling process, necessitated new improvements. The Process of Milling wheat by the gradual reduction methods in the early eighties was quite complex.
