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The
Keever Starch Company

Such great quantities of Victor Mill starch are being used in the Southern Mills and so many people
are handling it that a brief description of the manufacturing processes of The Keever Starch Co., should procve
of interest.

To begin with, the grain is unloaded from the cars into wooden tanks called steeps, and allowed to
remain soaking in water until it is swelled. From these steeps it is carried to the degerminating machine,
where the germ, or heart is torn loose from the balance of the grain, and carried to a tank, where, owing to the
large percentage of oil, while the rest of the grain is carried to burr mills and ground, water being added until the
liquid from the mills is about the consistency of butter milk. This liquid is then strained through fine bolting
cloths, which separate the chaff from the liquid starch. This latter is then pumped up onto the runs, which are
long wooden troughs, slightly elevated at one end, and the liquid passes slowly down them, the starch settling
to the bottom and the water running off at the lower end. The starch is then cut out of these runs in blocks
with wooden spades, placed on wooden boards and rolled on trucks into the dry kilns. As the blocks of starch
dry out, they shatter and fall to pieces in different sized crystals.

The above is the process of making starch, briefly stated, but of course, other treatmens are given to make
the strach better adapted to its various uses, such as Victor Mill, Satinette Laundry starch, and for other
purposes.