FEB. 26 ISSUE ANSWERS: In May of 1975 The Romeo Observer published a set of articles about the Clifton Mill over a number of weeks. A Mr. Gaston, the miller at Clifton, was interviewed about the operation of the mill. The following is Gaston’s story: “The grain is wheeled into the mill on a bag truck and dumped into a hole in the floor. It descends to an endless belt with little steel cups (the elevator) which carry it to the third floor where it will be directed into a number of storage bins or the grain cleaner. This has selective screens which are made to oscillate. The grain goes through a course screen, which removes one hopes the rocks and small birds and other debris, then onto a finer screen which passes weed seeds and dirt and other minute miscellany. The wheat advances over the edge of the screen where it falls past a blast of air created by a fan which looks like the stern wheel of a Mississippi steamboat.” The Romeo Observer Next week we will follow the wheat unto the grain stones. Last week’s photo of the stream at Wolcott Mill is the head race. When the miller creates a dam, it raises the water behind the dam. This is the head. The miller digs a channel into the newly raised mill pond and channels this higher stream towards the mill’s water wheel.