Grinding Mill

There is no certainty that Foos built stone Behr mills. But its 1888 catalog includes the scientific corn meal bolter, a device for screening the ground mill. The larger particles remained on the top screen, finally going to an offal pile, while the fine-grade corn meal dropped through the screen to a waiting basket.

This 1884 illustration shows the Freeport stone Behr mill of the day, there are indications that Freeport machine co. was somehow associated with Stover manufacturing co. or other manufacturing interests of D.C. Stover. Outside of this engraving, little more is known of the Freeport mill.

Meadows mills were very popular, being offered in various sizes and directed to the farm trade. for some years, the meadows mills were sold through international harvester dealers; this probably accounts for the substantial number of meadows mills still in existence. This advertisement of the 1920s shows many of the operating parts of the mill.

Stone Behr mills were used primarily for the reduction of corn to corn meal and wheat to flour. But as noted in these 1884 Munson bros, advertisement, it could also be used for grinding spices, cement and other materials. Stone Behr mills like this one were used into the 1880s, when the roller mill was developed by Edward p. Allis & Co. subsequently, the roller mill became the predominant method of flour milling and the stone Behr mill lost most of its dominance in the industry.

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