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Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886

Zea Mays by Herbert M. Prouty, 1886, Page 56

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54 from 24 to 30 hrs. thereupon bruised between rollers, or under horizontally moving burrstones, ground into a fine paste. The ground corn is then washed out in a cylinder sieve separating the epidermis (hulls) from the starch milk. The latter is placed upon inclined planes, where the starch granules deposit themselves, while the lighter gluten and fibrin substances are gathered in large tanks. After the water has become clear and the suspended substances have in greater part deposited themsevles
 
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